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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The Rosetta Stone was important because it

OpenStudy (anonymous):

== Rosetta Stone == This tablet contained the translations of 3 different languages all on the same stone. # Greek # Egyptian Hieroglyphics # Demotic Scripts In addition, if we never found the Rosetta stone we wouldn't know much about Egyptian writing, ancient Egypt, or ruler Ptolemy v. . It is because the Rosetta Stone had text in Greek and a later form of Egyptian. For a long time the historians did not know how to read them, but then a French soldier gave historians the Rosetta Stone. Because the message in all three languages was the same, scholars who knew Greek were able to figure out what the hieroglyphics said. The Rosetta Stone was important to archaeologists because it had hieroglyphics on it and it has been found after a long period of time. Until the Rosetta Stone was discovered, no modern human could read Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone had the same words written in three languages; Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphs, which allowed people to learn how to read Egyptian hieroglyphics by comparing them to the other two languages. so that scholars could know how to read hieroglyphics. the stone was in greek and two forms of hieroglyphics. people who spoke Greek translated it and found out that it meant the same thing in hieroglyphics.

OpenStudy (ryan123345):

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