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14 Cards in this Set
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Who discovered the Rosetta Stone?
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French soldiers
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Who led the soldiers who found the Rosetta Stone?
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Napoleon
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When was the stone discovered?
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1799
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Where was the stone discovered?
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In a village in the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid)
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How many scripts was the stone written in?
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3
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What were the names of the scripts it was written in?
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Hieroglyphic
Demotic Greek |
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Why was the stone in different scripts?
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Because three scripts were being used in Egypt at the time
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When was the Rosetta Stone made?
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196BCE
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What does the stone say on it?
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It is honoring the pharaoh of Egypt
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Who made the stone?
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An Egyptian group of priests
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Why was the stone significant?
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Because it allowed the modern world to learn the language of hieroglyphics
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How did they decipher the hieroglyphics?
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He could read Greek which meant he was able to translate the demotic script and by working out what those hieroglyphics stood for he deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphic script
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Who deciphered the Egyptian script?
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Jean-François Champollion
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When did he translate the hieroglyphic script?
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1822
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