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2. Rosetta Stone - Wikipedia

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   The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed ... first complete translation of the Greek text was published in 1803. ... know as the Rosetta Stone. Ancient ...

3. Rosetta Stone decree - Wikipedia

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   The Rosetta Stone decree, or the Decree of Memphis, is a Ptolemaic decree most notable for its bilingual and tri-scriptual nature, which enabled the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Issued by a council of priests confirming the royal cult of Ptolemy V in 196 BC at Memphis , it was written in Egyptian hieroglyphs , Egyptian Demotic and ...

4. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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   The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 by members of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt, bore a parallel text in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. It was hoped that the Egyptian text could be deciphered through its Greek translation, especially in combination with the evidence from the Coptic language, the last stage of the Egyptian language.

5. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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   The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. The breakthrough in decipherment came only with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops in 1799 (during Napoleon's Egyptian invasion). As the stone presented a hieroglyphic and a demotic version of the same text in parallel with a Greek translation, plenty of material for falsifiable ...

6. 9 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from Napoleon's ...

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   When the French found the Rosetta Stone during their invasion, they knew it could serve as a kind of translation key. Deciphering hieroglyphs would allow scholars to read the writing on scores of ...

7. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Rosetta Stone

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   Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Articles this image appears in Ancient Egypt Rosetta Stone Creator

8. Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone - AOL

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   This undated photo provided by the British Museum, shows the Rosetta Stone, the centerpiece of a new exhibition at London’s largest museum titled, "Hieroglyphs unlocking ancient Egypt ...

9. Parallel text - Wikipedia

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   A famous example is the Rosetta Stone, whose discovery allowed the Ancient Egyptian language to begin being deciphered. Large collections of parallel texts are called parallel corpora (see text corpus). Alignments of parallel corpora at sentence level are prerequisite for many areas of linguistic research. During translation, sentences can be ...