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Champollion's key to Egyptian hieroglyphs
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rosetta stone
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The Rosetta Stone is a rock stele , found in 1799, inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis , Egypt , in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V . The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs , the middle portion is Demotic ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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discovered 1798 at Rosetta , Egypt; now in British Museum. Dating to 2c. B.C.E., its trilingual inscription helped Jean-François Champollion decipher Egyptian demotic and hieroglyphics in 1822, which opened the way to study of all early Egyptian records. ...
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At the same time, he couldn't escape the feeling that there was one key, one discovery, one cultural Rosetta stone that would al.
Stone, becoming Rosetta Stone, and moving away to start her own family.
Then, somehow, it seemed, in a few days Roy was grown into pretty childhood, and thence to girlhood, and thence to maidenhood, and suddenly she was marrying the son of a local forester named Stone, becoming Rosetta Stone, and moving away to start her own family.
Look how long it took to read Egyptian hieroglyphics, even after they had the Rosetta Stone.
The sound of the words out loud brought to mind 'Rosetta stone,' and it was in the grip of strange allusions that I went back to lean on the bar opposite Milt.
Cortez was certainly no Napoleon, who brought along the scientists who discovered the Rosetta Stone.
She, too, had been thinking about the Rosetta Stone, the pivotal discovery that provided, with the same message in Greek and Egyptian, the key to translating hieroglyphics.