New Concepts

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Rosetta stone

Written by Dr. Sherin ElKhawaga


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The representation of a single text ofrepparttar three mentioned script variants enabledrepparttar 109447 French scholar Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in 1822 to basically decipherrepparttar 109448 hieroglyphs. Furthermore, withrepparttar 109449 aid ofrepparttar 109450 Coptic language (language ofrepparttar 109451 Christian descendants ofrepparttar 109452 ancient Egyptians), he succeeded to realizerepparttar 109453 phonetic value ofrepparttar 109454 hieroglyphs. This provedrepparttar 109455 fact that hieroglyphs do not have only symbolic meaning, but that they also served as a "spoken language". this article is courtesy of www.kingtutshop.com Home of educational kits and handmade crafts. Another British physicist Thomas Young worked onrepparttar 109456 translation ofrepparttar 109457 stone withrepparttar 109458 French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion. Thomas Young,repparttar 109459 English Physicist, wasrepparttar 109460 first to prove thatrepparttar 109461 elongated ovals or cartouches inrepparttar 109462 hieroglyphic section ofrepparttar 109463 stone contained a royal name written phonetically, in this case that of Ptolemy. Jean François Champollion went on to correct and enlarge Young's list of phonetic hieroglyphs and layrepparttar 109464 foundations of our knowledge ofrepparttar 109465 ancient Egyptian language in a paper which was read torepparttar 109466 Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris in 1822. It was this discovery -- thatrepparttar 109467 Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system used a combination of ideograms, phonetic signs, and determinatives -- that providedrepparttar 109468 breakthrough inrepparttar 109469 translation of hieroglyphic writing. And this ability to readrepparttar 109470 ancient hieroglyphs in turn openedrepparttar 109471 door torepparttar 109472 history of ancient Egypt and gave birth torepparttar 109473 new discipline of Egyptology.

Dr. Sherin ElKhawaga, egyptian radiologist, interested in egyptology.


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