Cross Giblin Rosetta Stone Summary

The work I chose to analyze was from a wall fragment from the tomb of Ameneemhet and wife Hemet called Mummy Case of Paankhenamun, found in the Art Institute of Chicago. The case of the Mummy Paankhenamun is one of the most exquisite pieces of art produced by the Egyptian people during the time before Christ. This coffin belonged to a man named Paankhenamun, which translates to “He Lives for Amun” (Hornblower & Spawforth 74). Paankhenamun was the doorkeeper of the temple of the god Amun, a position he inherited from his father.

In the late 1700's an elite of Napoleons men had found the stone after overtaking Egypt. The stone had various hieroglyphs and demotic carved into it. Giblin touches bases on how many people had unsuccessful outcomes with solving the Rosetta Stone mystery. Eventually this mystery was solved successfully after realizing it's meaning was not just symbolic but needed

The oldest record discovered by archaeologists dates back as far as 1900 B.C. in the town of Menet Khufu. In the tomb of Khnumhotep II, an Egyptian nobleman, symbols (also known as “hieroglyphics”) were uncovered that depicted a message (See figure 1, Appendix). However, upon closer examination, it became apparent that many of the symbols were unusual, if not entirely fake. It can be easily determined that this message was in the form of cryptography. A cipher is “an algorithm, process, or method for performing encryption and decryption” and “has a set of well-defined steps that can be followed to encrypt and decrypt messages” (Mcdonald), and undoubtedly what the hieroglyphic message is, having such unusual symbols. Throughout the following years of Egyptian civilization, cryptography became more common and the substitution of hieroglyphics was used by scribes, whether it be to “preserve the sacred nature of their religious rituals from common people” who lacked the skills to read and write at an advanced level”, or that “the scribes wanted to give a formal appearance to their writings” (Mcdonald). Either way, cryptography continued to have an effect on the Egyptians, soon spreading its sophistication to other areas of the Ancient

Another man who devoted many years of his life to studying the stone was Jean-Francois Champollion. After many years of perseverance, Champollion finally translated the stone in 1822. He accomplished this feat by first recognizing that hieroglyphs were not symbols, but instead were associated with phonetics, as Thomas Young had proved. (Andrews 166) His first major breakthrough in his studies was in 1808, when he resolved those fifteen signs of the demotic script related with alphabetic letters from the Coptic language. From this he concluded that Coptic language must be based on the remnants of the last of the ancient Egyptian language, and written with the Greek alphabet, which is why it was readable to Champollion and other scholars researching the stone. Also, that the hieroglyphic text was a translation of the Greek, not the reverse, as had been previously believed. By 1818, Champollion had successfully concluded that though some signs were basically ideograms, many of the glyphs had phonetic value, meaning the ancient Egyptian script was at least partially alphabetic. (Giblin 83) He came to this conclusion after referring back to three other different forms of Egyptian writing and also using Coptic as a reference. Recognizing the name 'Ptolemy' and 'Cleopatra' in the Greek and demotic sections of the stone allowed him to identify those same names in hieroglyphics. Still wondering, he didn't think that hieroglyphs were

It was created by a council of priests to honor Ptolemy V. The Rosetta stone was made when Greeks began to rule Egypt. On the stone the same passage is written three times. Once in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. The passage was written in hieroglyphics because the Egyptians used this script for important or religious documents. The passage was written in demotic because this was the common script for the Egyptians. The passage was written in Greek because when the Rosetta stone was being made the rulers of Egypt were Greek descendants. The Rosetta stone was written in three different languages so that all the people of Egypt could read what it said. The Rosetta stone was carved in 196 B.C. The Rosetta stone states all the good things that the Egyptian pharaoh has done for the priests and the people of

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in 2 different languages Greek and Egyptian. The Rosetta Stone uses 3 types of scripts demotic, Greek, and Hieroglyphic. The Rosetta stone lists all the good things that the pharaohs did for the people of Egypt.

Since the publication of John Brown's article in 1798, we have learned an enormous about ancient Egyptian history. Some of what we have learned (certainly not all) includes (1) the English alphabet can be translated into hieroglyphics, therefore a new era of Egyptology started and lead to wonderful discoveries, such as Tut's tomb, and the hieroglyphic burial content that surround sarcophagi and tomb walls are readable, as is the Book of the Dead and hieroglyphic writings such as autobiographies and chronologies; (2) the dates of the Pharaonic Dynasties and kingdoms (i.e., Old, Middle, and New) which are now much more firmly established; (3) that the ability to interpret he historical inscriptions on great monuments (e.g., Thutmose III

Whenever the topic of Ancient Egypt is breached, a few generic topics are instantly recalled: maybe it’s the pyramids, King Tut’s tomb, maybe even the Exodus? Before Egypt became the Egypt that most everyone knows of now, it was a wildly disjointed, disunited preamble to the great empire it became known for. King Narmer was the factor that ultimately changed that. Unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, Narmer set into motion a series of events that ultimately shaped Egypt into the modern republic it is now. In this episode of ‘A History of the World in 101 Objects,’ we will delve into the history behind this legendary Stele, explore the ancient and current significance of such a production, and attempt to lift the veil on

Anyone who has studied ancient Egypt will be familiar with Jean Francois Champollion. He was, after all, credited with deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone and thus giving scholars the key to understanding hieroglyphics. For this effort along, he is frequently referred to as the Father of Egyptology, for he provided the foundation that scholars would need in order to truly understand the ancient Egyptians. Even though he suffered a stroke, dying at the age of forty-one, he himself added to our knowledge of this grand, ancient civilization by translating any number of Egyptian texts prior to his death.

The Rosetta Stone is a large stone covered in writing in three scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. It was discovered by French soldiers in the late 1700s at the time of the Napoleonic conquest and occupation of Egypt. Napoleon had brought French intellectuals to help him study things about Egypt and they believed that The Rosetta Stone would be the code to deciphering Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. However, when the French were beaten by British military forces, they were forced to give up many Egyptian artifacts including the stone. François Champollion was the first to finally decode the hieroglyphic inscriptions Rosetta Stone, and this led to a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian society and culture.

Egypt has been fighting a war since the age of the bible. In a biblical sense the Egyptians has always been people of great resilience. The ten plagues could not hold this nation down. For almost 30 centuries—from its unification around 3100 B.C. to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.—ancient Egypt was the preeminent civilization in the Mediterranean world. From the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom through the military conquests of the New Kingdom, Egypt’s majesty has long entranced archaeologists and historians and created a vibrant field of study all its own: Egyptology. The main sources of information about ancient Egypt are the many monuments, objects and artifacts that have been recovered from archaeological sites, covered with hieroglyphs that have only recently been deciphered. The picture that emerges is of a culture with few equals in the beauty of its art, the accomplishment of its architecture or the richness of its religious traditions. ( Ancient Egypt. (n.d.).

The Rosetta Stone is extremely important simply because it was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics after the understanding of how to interpret hieroglyphics diminished over time.

During pre-historic Egypt scholars have no hieroglyphics. The information of Egypt during this era is based on artifacts that show an image that can shed light on pre-historic Egypt. This unique era is explained well by John Baines. Baines uses Egyptian works of art and types of artifacts to construct an image of the elite family views on the world in and around Egypt. He specifically looks at art from the Naqada III Period and Dynasty 0. Palettes, knives, and mace heads are the artifact types that Baines focuses on. Images on these art works can help scholars understand the world view of early Egypt.

The Rosetta stone The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs , a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religion .

“The care that the Egyptians took with these stones is what really should be studied. It’s as if they revered the stones more even than they revered the pyramids or their Pharaoh.” (Baum pg 6)