The Rosetta Stone

Introduction

The Rosetta stone the key to the Egyptians

I chose the Rosetta stone because of its mysteries and unsolved scripts and hieroglyphics. It occurred to me when I was reading up on Egyptians. I hope to learn the guarded secrets it holds so I can know to decipher the ancient texts and to reveal the secrets of the Egyptians.

The Rosetta stone is found in a British museum in London.

The Rosetta stone is three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a half inches wide, and eleven inches thick.

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 that may mean that it has been lost for almost 1400 years.

Athanasius kircher, a German priest of the 1600s, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of the Christian Egypt.

The French general Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt with an army of 38,000 soldiers.

Egyptians wrote on stones called slabs.

In 1802, the Rosetta stone was shipped to England.

On august 1st the British army caught the French fleet off guard and completely destroyed Alexandria.

After almost one hundred years of deciphering the Rosetta stones hieroglyphics were translated in 1850.

The Rosetta stone has three different scripts.

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