Who discovered the Rosetta Stone?
officer Pierre François Xavier Bouchard
Rosetta was located on a tributary of the Nile near the Mediterranean coast east of Alexandria. Napoleon’s forces were constructing fortifications when the large inscribed stone fragment was uncovered by officer Pierre François Xavier Bouchard (1772–1832).
What does the Rosetta Stone actually say?
The writing on the Stone is an official message, called a decree, about the king (Ptolemy V, r. 204–181 BC). The decree was copied on to large stone slabs called stelae, which were put in every temple in Egypt. It says that the priests of a temple in Memphis (in Egypt) supported the king.
Why was the Rosetta Stone created?
The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt.
Who cracked the code of the Rosetta Stone?
Jean-Francois Champollion
Roughly 200 years ago, however, the original Rosetta Stone provided the key to deciphering the most beautiful and enigmatic of all writing systems, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The man who finally cracked the code was a young Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832).
Why should the Rosetta Stone be returned to Egypt?
Additionally, Egypt is building a new Museum to better protect the objects and artifacts. My first reason why the Rosetta Stone should go back to Egypt is because the British Museum already has 8 million artifacts and objects and only 80,000 can be seen.
Why is King Tut a well known pharaoh?
The tomb’s vast hoard of artifacts and treasure, intended to accompany the king into the afterlife, revealed an incredible amount about royal life in ancient Egypt, and quickly made King Tut the world’s most famous pharaoh.
How long did it take to crack the code of the Rosetta Stone?
The repeated texts allowed Jean-François Champollion, a French scholar, to decode the hieroglyphs in 1822, opening up masses of ancient Egyptian texts for study. Contrary to the metaphors of Rosetta Stones as keys to a sudden breakthrough, though, this was a painstaking process that took nearly 20 years.
Why do they take the organs out of mummies?
Mummification. One of the embalmer’s men makes a cut in the left side of the body and removes many of the internal organs. It is important to remove these because they are the first part of the body to decompose. The liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are washed and packed in natron which will dry them out.
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