CIVILIZATION
EGYPTIAN
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a stone that contained text in hieroglyphics, demotic script, and Greek, used by Jean Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics
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a plant used to make a paperlike writing material used by Egyptian scribes
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the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ancient Egyptian slab helped crack the code of hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone is a slab of granitoid stone featuring a written decree issued in 196 B.C. by a group of Egyptian clergy and Egypt’s ruler, Ptolemy V, attesting to his generosity and devoutness.
Detailed explanation-2: -The inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone are in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, and three writing systems, hieroglyphics, demotic script (a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics), and the Greek alphabet, which provided a key to the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.
Detailed explanation-3: -When it was discovered, nobody knew how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Because the inscriptions say the same thing in three different scripts, and scholars could still read Ancient Greek, the Rosetta Stone became a valuable key to deciphering the hieroglyphs.
Detailed explanation-4: -The name relates to its discovery in the Egyptian town of Rosetta (el-Rashid in Arabic) in 1799. A year earlier, Napoleon’s French forces had invaded Egypt, then part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, and while working on fortifications, French soldiers discovered the large granite slab covered in inscriptions.