Why Was the Rosetta Stone So Important?
The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture-writing known as hieroglyphics. Writing from Egyptian times has survived, but until a few centuries ago no one knew what it meant, because no one was able to translate these symbols. Then in 1799, French soldiers found a slab of stone near the Egyptian town of Rosetta. The stone conta
The Rosetta Stone held the key to understanding the lost Egyptian language & writing system With the same text written in three different writing systems, the Egyptian language could finally be understood by modern historians! Rosetta Stone had the same text in three writing systems: 1) hieroglyphics (forma Egyptian writing) 2) demotic (simplified Egyptian script) 3) Greek (we can understand) * discovered in 1800s by the French historian, Champillion.
The Rosetta Stone is very important because it holds information of the egyptians and their language. It just helps archeaologists to have a better understanding of them. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_la… or http://www.friesian.com/egypt.
