TED-Ed
Why was the Rosetta Stone so important? - Franziska Naether
2024 • E22 Mar 13, 2024 5m
For centuries, scholars puzzled over the hieroglyphs they found carved onto ancient Egyptian ruins, tablets, and papyri. But in 1799, a unique discovery would finally help unlock their meaning. It was a stone inscribed with three different texts: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Demotic Egyptian, and Ancient Greek. Franziska Naether shares how scholars decoded the ancient message of the Rosetta Stone.
Lesson by Franziska Naether, directed by Tim Rauch.
Lesson by Franziska Naether, directed by Tim Rauch.