After a plea to parliament for funds the trustees began building a new gallery to house these acquisitions. The rosetta stone and other sculptures were placed in temporary structures in the museum grounds because the floors were not strong enough to bear their weight. Watch one family s journey through a life changing face transplant.
She donated her body to science and now she ll live forever. Featured videos related inside the dark world of captive wildlife tourism. The discovery of the rosetta stone was instrumental in deciphering the meaning of hieroglyphs.
Young deciphered the cartouche as the name of ptolemy and proved a long held assumption that the cartouches found in other inscriptions were the names of royalty. The hieroglyphic text on the rosetta stone contains six identical cartouches oval figures enclosing hieroglyphs. Because ancient greek had been deciphered at the time of the rosetta stone s discovery scientists were eventually able to decipher the other two unknown scripts which contained the same text.
How champollion deciphered the rosetta stone one of the great pleasures in retracing the steps of a fundamental discovery be it in science or music or art is remaking the discovery for oneself re experiencing the process through which the scientist or artist grasped something profound which hitherto had been utterly unknown. The man credited with this achievement is the french scholar jean françois champollion though the story involves several other scholars as well. Thanks to the discovery of the rosetta stone ancient egyptian hieroglyphs could be deciphered unveiling secrets of the ancient civilization.
Between 1822 and 1824 champollion showed that hieroglyphics were a. Ultimately it was french linguist jean francois champollion who deciphered the rosetta stone and cracked the hieroglyphic code. Jean françois champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient egypt.
Boy king ptolemy v epiphanes. The first and easiest step deciphering the greek text revealed that the rosetta stone contained a relatively mundane egyptian decree praising the 2nd century b c. The rosetta stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in memphis egypt in 196 bc during the ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of king ptolemy v epiphanes the top and middle texts are in ancient egyptian using hieroglyphic and demotic scripts respectively while the bottom is in ancient greek the decree has only minor differences between the three versions.
