Jean-François Champollion

what the hieroglyphs meant. British scientist Thomas Young, and a poor gifted boy from the French countryside Jean-François Champollion. Many scholars had tried to decipher what…

Waxman, S. 2008 Finding Rosetta (ch. 2.). Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. Times Books, N.Y. Throughout the course of this chapter Waxman overviews how antiquarianism and Europeans within Egypt had both positive and negative effects on Egyptology. She starts off by looking at Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and the work his savants took on as they documented the great monuments of Europe. She then goes off to talk about Jean-Francois Champollion and Giovanni…

themes in honoring the gods. The epic of Gilgamesh remains one the greatest legacies of Mesopotamia attesting to the fact the epic remains one of the oldest stories written on clay tablets, with adventures of the mythological king, Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu, having brave the trials the Gods given them, and ultimately the Gods unleashed the flood upon the world. However, no one knew how to properly translate the Egyptian hieroglyphics which lay strewn across their temple walls and pyramids…

sitcom, Bob’s Burgers has been able to successfully encapsulate postmodernist themes and aesthetics into the contemporary television sitcom landscape. Firstly, many scholars have varying definitions of postmodernism, it is generally the rejection of the modernist era. While modernism, which consisted of discovery and the urge to “understand” reality, the postmodern condition, within Bob’s Burgers, does the opposite. It takes the ideals of modernism and challenges/distorts its narrative.…

The Rosetta Stone is important to the Ancient Egyptians because, it is the anwser to Hierogliphic writing. If you closely compare other languages spoken at Egypt to the Hieroglphics you would understand what it says. Also acording to Ancient Egypt.com, it states that in 1822, after inspecting the Rosetta Stone for a long time, a man named Jean Francois Champollion finally understood how to read and write in Hierogliphics. Champollion was able to read Coptic and Greek.( Coptic is the present…

Hieroglyphics are way different from how we write today because it could be written in any direction, a symbol could represent a full word or even a sound, and there was no punctuation! And only about 3% of Ancient Egypt's population knew how to read hieroglyphics, unlike now when most everyone can read. Can you believe the Rosetta Stone is now one of the most valuable treasures in the British Museum? It was buried for centuries until French Soldiers found it. And for over 1,000 years…

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…

Champollion could read both Greek and coptic. He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs. By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he could make educated guesses about what the other hieroglyphs stood for. The Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum in London since 1802, except for a…

fall from use in favor of the Coptic alphabet. 3. The Rosetta Stone; written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt. The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents. The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time. The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and…

even sitters. After series of regents, situation in Egypt was terrible. The country was paralyzed. Eventually Ptolemy regained his throne in 196 BC and immediately started dealing with crisis. Young king was honored by magnificent granodiorite stele created by priests. The inscription was sort of public announcement which was published to celebrate coronation of true ruler. It can also be considered as description of Ptolemy's successes, he lowered taxes, announced amnesty and most importantly…