Rosetta? Who is That?
Woah! This Ted Talk was so interesting about this stone called the Rosetta. Since the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by the French military becasue they invaded Egypt and was casually just sitting on the outskirts of Rashid. On the stone it had three different sections of text which included Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek and it took awhile to cipher these sections of the Rosetta Stone. Furthermore, these texts were basically from oldest to newest onto the Rosetta Stone with the Hieroglyphics being the oldest on the Stone and it clearly shows Civilization had knowledge and language was changing. Then later on in 1802 when the English received the Rosetta Stone it was on display but soon after there was three decoders that help to decode the Stone and there names were Thomas Young, Johan Ã…kerblad, and Jean-Francois Champollen. While they were decoding the Stone it was interesting to me since each of the sections of the stone were different. Like for example, th...