Rosetta Stone is the famous monument which opened up the Ancient Egyptian writing system.
This book is a collection of two articles by E.A. Wallis Budge on the famous Rosetta Stone, which was the key to the modern decipherable of the Ancient Egyptian writing system. The first article is an essay from Budge's anthology The Mummy, which discusses the stone, ancient and medieval writings about hieroglyphics, and the competition between Young and Champollion, the two 19th century scholars who eventually cracked the code. He explains how the stone was used to piece together the Egyptian alphabetic signs, the key to the rest of the hieroglyphics.
The second article is his translation of the text of the stone, which turns out to be a fairly unremarkable Ptolemaic era decree.
This book is a collection of two articles by E.A. Wallis Budge on the famous Rosetta Stone, which was the key to the modern decipherable of the Ancient Egyptian writing system. The first article is an essay from Budge's anthology The Mummy, which discusses the stone, ancient and medieval writings about hieroglyphics, and the competition between Young and Champollion, the two 19th century scholars who eventually cracked the code. He explains how the stone was used to piece together the Egyptian alphabetic signs, the key to the rest of the hieroglyphics.
The second article is his translation of the text of the stone, which turns out to be a fairly unremarkable Ptolemaic era decree.
