Since the dawn of time, mankind has risen two million years ago in Africa and soon dominated the world in 13,000 B.C. as they spread out to the far corners of the world. Soon as humans began to settle down in groups to survive, culture rose and took place into their lives. Culture is the collection of beliefs and principles that are brought together in a social group by the human perception of life and nature. As culture play a vital part in human life, language was created to help one human to communicate with another. Language is a method used to communicate, either spoken or written, in a structure or conventional ways. Soon, language and culture had a complex relationship as they evolve together, rely on each other, and build the character
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Later, it was taken control by the Muslims and Christians who spread their religion and culture preventing the Egyptians to go back to their roots and relive the past. The culture soon diminished but revived by the intervention of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was a shrewd man as he decided to invade Egypt to gain access to The Nile River in order to launch a surprise attack against the British. He sends a squadron of scholars to Egypt as he believed that in order to take a country, one must know everything about it. His squadron discovered The Rosetta Stone which became the most valuable archaeological find in the history of mankind. The Rosetta stone is written in two languages; Egyptian and Greek and three writing systems; Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. Since Greek is still knowledgeable at the time, the translation of The Rosetta Stone was possible. The deciphering of The Rosetta Stone was largely contributed by Thomas Young of England and Jean-François Champollion of France. Thanks to their contribution, archaeologist and anthropologist can now understand the culture and knowledge of The Ancient Egyptians left behind for more than a millennium. This example shows how language play an important part in the preservation of culture as The Rosetta Stone contained Greek which helped decipher the two types of Egyptian alphabet. If it weren't for the discovery of The Rosetta Stone, we would lack the knowledge of the ancient culture of The
Later, it was taken control by the Muslims and Christians who spread their religion and culture preventing the Egyptians to go back to their roots and relive the past. The culture soon diminished but revived by the intervention of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was a shrewd man as he decided to invade Egypt to gain access to The Nile River in order to launch a surprise attack against the British. He sends a squadron of scholars to Egypt as he believed that in order to take a country, one must know everything about it. His squadron discovered The Rosetta Stone which became the most valuable archaeological find in the history of mankind. The Rosetta stone is written in two languages; Egyptian and Greek and three writing systems; Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. Since Greek is still knowledgeable at the time, the translation of The Rosetta Stone was possible. The deciphering of The Rosetta Stone was largely contributed by Thomas Young of England and Jean-François Champollion of France. Thanks to their contribution, archaeologist and anthropologist can now understand the culture and knowledge of The Ancient Egyptians left behind for more than a millennium. This example shows how language play an important part in the preservation of culture as The Rosetta Stone contained Greek which helped decipher the two types of Egyptian alphabet. If it weren't for the discovery of The Rosetta Stone, we would lack the knowledge of the ancient culture of The