The Rosetta Stone, and Much More
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 2492801 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 1999Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Bob Brier
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 1999.
The Rosetta Stone is a large granite stela, carved under Ptolemy V and unearthed by French troops in 1799. With inscriptions of the same text in Greek and Egyptian, it provided the key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian language. Learn the four scripts in which ancient Egyptian can be written, as well as the three ways hieroglyphic signs can be used.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English