"THE ROSETTA STONE"
INTRODUCTION:-
When the last temple was closed in the 6th century A.D. , the skills of reading HIEROGLYPHS was lost until the discovery of this stone in 1799.
WHAT DID THE STONE CONTAIN?
It had three scripts the bottom section was in Greek , the center in
Demotic ,and the top was in Hieroglyphs.It was an elaborate "THANK YOU" to the Greek ruler of Egypt PTOLEMY V.
WHO DECIPHERED IT..?:-
French archaeologist, JEAN-FRANCOIS
CHAMPOLLION spent many years deciphering the Rosetta stone .Knowing that
the script contained the name of Ptolemy, from this information the text was gradually deciphered .He also had a great help from the other two scripts ,as all the three scripts contained the same thing.
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