History Channel - Ancient Mysteries - The Rosetta Stone 1/5

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC.

The renaissance translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early 1800s promulgated the immediate three-language translation of the tri-lingual Behistun Inscription in cuneiform scripts, by scaffolding work on the cliff-wall face, before the mid-1800s. Both hieroglyphs and cuneiform were starting a translation revolution, as were the physical sciences of describing fossil evolution.

The Rosetta Stone is 114.4 centimetres (45.0 in) high at its highest point, 72.3 centimetres (28.5 in) wide, and 27.9 centimetres (11.0 in) thick.[1] It is unfinished on its sides and reverse. Weighing approximately 760 kilograms (1,700 lb), it was originally thought to be granite or basalt but is currently described as granodiorite of a dark grey-pinkish colour.[2] The stone has been on public display at The British Museum since 1802.

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[BoBzIsHere]

The middle text has finally been translated, its MACEDONIAN !!! Not greek! But a seperate nation called MACEDONIA !

[DocumentaryMacedonia]

@BoBzIsHere Why are you manipulator! Middle text from Rosseta Stone is not translated because is written with Demotyc letters and its hard to be translated 100%! Tendov and Boshevski are not linguists or phylologists they are machine ingeeners!

[USAFSmiley87]

@DocumentaryMacedonia *Engineers*

[DocumentaryMacedonia]

@USAFSmiley87 tnx

[sara1egy]

@iam7who7iam7 kmt means "the black land" which is refer to the mud of the Nile , not to the color of the Egyptian, I'm Egyptian and I'm white as so many people in Egypt , anyway, the color is not important its not a big deal we all humans and we all the same.

[pengyou55]

Thank you, Leonard Nimoy, for your narration. 

[Minimewzified]

@wisesakura wtf?????? where did rainbow coloured mongolians come from??

[Minimewzified]

@DocumentaryMacedonia THANK you mr macedonia

[Minimewzified]

@BoBzIsHere umm the middle text is demotic, a mix of hieroglyphs and greek. the BOTTOM text is greek

[Osawsi]

@HELLsoldierIX you know you just "pluralized" an already plural word -I.e. people - just throwing that out there. Many black history have been stolen pr down played. Many still believe that their was no Africans in Europe without being slaves nor is it common knowledge that Africa kingdoms rivaled that of Europe or asia empires in the past. YouTube: medieval Africa.

[HELLsoldierIX]

@ttridflorian Oh trust me blackie your a dumbass wehn it comes to history, and Id say that in front your face (not the first time towards an American or a Black American). In order for your idiotic race/nationality not to get mocked either online or in life. You need to lay off the idiotic claims on other peoples history.. and embrace your own history. No matter how primitive it might be. That I can respect, history thiefs.. I FUCK. Your a joke oh and I am one person.

[HELLsoldierIX]

@ttridflorian LMFAO being a dumbass is such a nice thing you are ignorant about everything... less things to worry about. Fyrom est 1991. Remember that ;) Obama is the same race as the citizents of FYROM.

[wisesakura]

Okay, stop arguing people. The truth is, Egyptians were Rainbowcolored Mongolians.

[wisesakura]

this narration/voice sucks. and they're promoting christupidianity uner the pretext of egyptian history. What else could I expect from the sneaky religious liars?

[ttridflorian]

@HELLsoldierIX

Ah racism such a wonderful thing.Always talking tough behind a computer or five against one.

There was no greek nation up until the 19th century.

Cleopatra is the same race as Obama and halle Berry so not white.

[ttridflorian]

@sgsfdgfsdfsdfsddf

What planet do you come from?