Jean François Champollion: Deciphering Ancient Egypt with the Rosetta Stone

One of the most important discoveries concerning ancient Egyptian history and culture research is a written translation called hieroglyphics. Because this language has been lost for thousands of years, there has been an attractive challenge for young Jean François translations. Scholars like Sylvestre de Sacy tried to translate Rosetta Stone before Champollion, but after working hard they gave it up (Giblin 32). Breakthrough advances in Champollion's hieroglyphics at Rosetta Stone opened up unprecedented possibilities for research and understanding in ancient Egypt and contemporary Egyptian studies were born.

Rosetta Stone: Rosetta Stone carved in 196 BC was discovered by French soldiers in Rosetta town in 1799. Rosetta Stone is extremely important as it was able to read and read from the person named Jean-Francois Champollion in 1822. Rosetta Stone itself is not a religious document, but its interpretation allows historians to read other religious documents of ancient Egypt. The post-mortem rituals include a disinfection process (which allows the soul to live), an "opening" ceremony (invoking sensations to use in the post-mortem world), wrapping the body with jewelry or amulets, And attaching face to deceased person is included. A very similar mask

JeanFrançois Champollion, an Egyptian ancient artist in France, was the first modern person to read hieroglyphics. It is pointed out that it is surrounded by an elliptical ring engraved with specific hieroglyphics on Rosetta Stone. This cycle, called whirlpool, separates the names of the kings and queen from a large amount of text. Champollion knew enough hieroglyphs to make sure that the decoration of Rosetta Stone contained the name of Ptolemy V Egyptian Greek ruler. When Champollion examined more decorations, I observed Ptolemy's vortex. Fit some glyphs with other decorations. . Champollion decided that the specific glyph in the vowel detailed the name of some Greek ruler, Egypt. Using this knowledge, skillfully reading the ideograms of other decorations, he decoded the names of local rulers Ramses and Thutmose.

Finally, Jean-François Champollion solved this mystery. He compares the name of Ptolemy V of Rosetta Stone by comparing the translation of Hieroglyphics and Greek. Then he continued to use the Obelisk of Philae (now Dorset, UK) to study these names. The names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra are written in Obelisk. By doing this, we can conclude that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are not ordinary alphabets, but are mixed signals representing sounds, thoughts, and words. By deciphering the work of Rosetta Stone by Champollion, the secret of the ancient Egyptian writing system became clear, and the world finally could read the history of Egypt.