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 * [[image:gsesegypt2012/rosettastone align="right" caption="http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/images/rose_lg.jpg"]]XX. Rosetta Stone**

Rosetta Stone
 * The Rosetta Stone was the key to hieroglyphics.** It was deciphered and taught us the language of Egypt. It was found in a place called Rosetta. **Jean-François Champollion deciphered it.** It created the popular studies of Egyptology.

The Rosetta Stone was the key to hieroglyphics. It was made in three different languages, hieroglyphics, heretic (which is an Egyptian cursive that was very common), and Greek, (which then was the language of royalty). It was written by priests’ to commemorate the crowning of king Ptolemy V Epiphanies and was made to honor him. The Rosetta Stone was made of basalt, which was a grayish pink rock. The Rosetta Stone had a pink stripe on the top of it so it was very unique. Some of the pieces of the Rosetta Stone are missing, a piece out of the top and a big chunk of the side. With all the pieces missing it is about 3 ft 9 in tall 2 ft 4 in wide and 11 in thick, weighing just less than three fourths of a ton. Before it was broken it was about 5 to 6 ft tall. The Rosetta Stone is very unique.
 * //The Rosetta Stone was found when Napoleon took some scholars to study the monuments in Egypt,//** so his soldiers were all alone rebuilding Fort Rachid when they found it. Rosetta was also known as Rachid. It was found in 1799 in the town of Rosetta. Rosetta was in the delta near the Mediterranean Sea. After Britain won the war against France they claimed it as their own and it is still in the British Museum today.

Jean- François Champollion deciphered the Rosetta Stone. He was French but had help from an English man named Thomas Young. Champollion even has his own coin. Champillion was fastinated by languages. Since he was 11, Champollion has wanted to decipher it. To decipher it he had to learn Greek and Coptic, which is mostly Greek but has some hieroglyphics in it. First he worked with proper names which he knew were in cartouches and that enabled him to learn sounds. After he deciphered all of it, in 1822, he wrote a pamphlet called Lettre a M. Pacier that contained all of the deciphered Rosetta Stone. This pamphlet enabled scholars to learn Egyptian easier.


 * If it were not for the Rosetta Stone then we would not know the language of Egyptians.** It taught us the language of hieroglyphics. It was found by the French soldiers but is in Britain. If it weren’t for Champollion it would have been a long time until we deciphered the Rosetta Stone. If there was no Rosetta Stone there would not be a language learning device named after it.

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