HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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in order to honr their patron goddess, the Athenians built the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the greek goddess of wisdom Athena.
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The Rosetta Stone was used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics included statements written in the Greek language so people could understand its meaning.
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greek food is regularly considered to be one of America’s favorite foreign foods to eat according to surveys.
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the study of Greek history is popular for students in both grade school and even college thousands of years after it occured.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The key to translating hieroglyphics The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs-a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Rosetta Stone, a symbol for different things to different people, is a dark-colored granodiorite stela inscribed with the same text in three scripts – Demotic, hieroglyphic and Greek. In July 1799, the stone was found in the city of Rosetta (modern el Rashid) by French soldiers during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt.
Detailed explanation-3: -The word hieroglyph literally means “sacred carvings". The Egyptians first used hieroglyphs exclusively for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls. This form of pictorial writing was also used on tombs, sheets of papyrus, wooden boards covered with a stucco wash, potsherds and fragments of limestone.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ancient Egyptians used the distinctive script known today as hieroglyphs (Greek for “sacred words") for almost 4, 000 years. Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus, carved in stone on tomb and temple walls, and used to decorate many objects of cultic and daily life use.