The Rosetta Stone

The rosetta stone isn't just some stone that they found in Rosetta(a city near the Nile delta). This stone unlocked us into the Egyptians life and what they did. You mite be wondering how a stone could do that. Well, this stone was different because we didn't know how to read the Egyptian language. Now you may be wondering how we finally figured out how to translate this, this stone had 3 different languages on it Hieroglyphics(top), Greek(middle), and Demotic(bottom). The way they deciphered it was they looked at the greek portion of the stone and noticed that some of the words matched up, so then they found out that the ovals(cartouches)around some of the symbols meant that there was a important name inside of the cartouche. Then a man by the name of Jean-Francois Champollion finally cracked the code in September 14 ,1822. Before this date only 13 characters on the whole stone had been solved. Some of the words included Cleopatra, Ramses II, and Ptolemy.