Does anyone know what was deciphered from the Rosetta Stone

Question

Does anyone know what was deciphered from the Rosetta Stone

Answer 1

The Rosetta Stone had three sets of writing, each in a different language.  By comparing with one of these languages (which was known) it was possible to learn the other ancient ones and thus opening the way to a lot of other translations.

Answer 2

Wasn't it the Dead Sea scrolls?

Answer 3

Hieroglyphics

Answer 4

Hieroglyphics and demotic.

The whole thing itself is really tedious document about trade and taxes.

Answer 5

A shopping list written by her sister Sharon

Answer 6

It enabled  old hieroglyphics to be translated into  other languages    

Answer 7

I'm not really sure the subject the writing was about but the importance of the rosetta stone was that it was written in 3 different languages and since we knew one of them it opened to door to deciphering ancient Egyptian hyroglyphs.  The Greek writing was the key to figuring out the hyroglyphs.

Answer 8

In 1799, during the French Invasion of Egypt, the stone was dug up. It's carved from basault and is about 45 inches in height.

"On the stone were three parallel inscriptions. The top two, hieroglyphic and demotic were in the Egyptian language; the bottom one was Greek. Although the number of lines of each inscription varied, increasing in each section going down the stone, the three sections of inscriptions were roughly the same size."

http://www.essortment.com/all/rosettasto...

While the Greek portion was quickly translated the text of the other two languages remained unknown. Parts of the stone were missing and the speaking of ancient Egyptian was lost. One could guess the three texts were the same but that didn't solve the problem of translating Hieroglyphics. The "key" was when Young noticed that a cartouche (name) corresponded to the Greek name of the Pharaoh Ptolemy. This lead to matching the Hieroglyphics to phonetics and the ability to translate some of the text. Later ,Champollion completed the translation of the writing..

While the stone allowed the Champollion deciphering of Hieroglyphics, the message was quite simple:

"the Rosetta Stone contained a decree from the general council of Egyptian priests issued in 196 BC"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egy...