Scholar's notes shine light on Rosetta Stone

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Nobody knew how to read hieroglyphs when two 19th-century scholars set out to decipher the inscribed texts on the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone, one of the British Museum’s most famous treasures. But Thomas Young spent his a summer holiday in Worthing in 1814 cutting up individual lines into strips. The notes show that he was arranging and rearranging the pieces.

Jed Buchwald told The Guardian '“I was astonished. Egyptian hieroglyphs has been written about more than anything else in ancient history. I thought, how’s it possible that nobody’s written about or used this material?'

The Rosetta inscription – which is broken and incomplete – features 14 lines of hieroglyphic script. Its text is a decree passed by a council of priests affirming the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation in 196BC.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/25/discovery-of-scholars-notes-shine-light-on-race-to-decipher-rosetta-stone

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