The legends of the four ancient civilizations have attracted countless descendants to explore, among which the cultural heritage of the Babylonian Kingdom is not much, but the remains of the other three civilizations are countless. It has high historical value, and through the study of cultural heritage in the site, it can not only provide a large number of useful historical information, but also infer the rise and fall of a region's culture.
Today, we want to learn about the Rosetta Stone, which is very important for the study of Egyptian culture.
Rosetta Stone, a rare treasure
Rosetta's tombstone was buried for more than 2,000 years, and it was only found by French troops in 1799. At that time, France was in the period of revolution, the national strength was relatively strong, and the French army swept through Europe and defeated many countries. The Iron Hooves of the French reached Sahara Egypt. The French excavated a strange black tombstone in a small town near Egypt's Mother River.
Because the town is named Rosetta, it is named rosetta stone. Although there are huge black rocks everywhere, the strange words on them are so difficult for the French to understand, so people talk about it.
Napoleon realized that the stele was most likely a relic of an ancient civilization, so he gave it to an expert in ancient history, but unfortunately, until the defeat of the French war, no one could solve its mysteries.
In 1801, the French army surrendered to England, and France, according to the agreement, gave to Britain everything it had acquired from Egypt. The Rosetta Stone, the most famous artifact in the world at the time, was forced to hand over to the British by the French, although they would not agree. When the British got rosetta's inscription, they stored it in Britain's most luxurious museum, and the Rosetta Stone is the treasure of the town.
The three languages recorded on the Rosetta Stone have been of interest to many linguists, and through it it is possible to compare the relationships and differences between these scripts, which is of great help in studying the origin of the Greek language and the Egyptian script.
Painstaking study, inscription mysterious
Immediately after obtaining Rosetta's inscription, the British organized their own experts to conduct an in-depth study. British experts first found a piece of Greek text under the tombstone, and after a Greek translation, they finally understood the contents of the stone tablet.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered around 200 BC, when the Egyptian pharaoh was Ptolemy V, who, during his reign, made many contributions to the country and the people, so the priests inscribed its name on Rosetta's tombstone.
Because the Ptolemaic dynasty was not founded in Egypt itself, but was created by Greeks who migrated southward, on this inscription, there are not only Greek, but also two other languages, one egyptian hieroglyph and one popular folk script, which scholars speculate are the same.
The most difficult thing to decipher the Rosetta Stele is to identify the symbols on them, and the culture of ancient Egypt and today's Egypt is very different, so the way symbols are recognized disappeared more than a thousand years ago. It is almost impossible to match these symbols to symbols one by one.
The British brought in experts and scholars from countries such as Germany and Italy to try to unravel the hieroglyphs, but because Egyptian hieroglyphs and information were so scarce, they spent more than a decade and found nothing.
It wasn't until 1820 that a French genius gave rise to more knowledge of Rosetta's inscriptions.
Linguistics wizard, Chinese cracking
This genius, named Chamborion, was not only a scholar who was proficient in many languages, but also a historian who knew Egyptian history very well. Unlike ordinary linguists, Champollion was proficient not only in Greek but also in Chinese.
Chinese is the most difficult language in the world to understand, and its word construction method is different from that of the West, but it has similarities with Egyptian hieroglyphs. After careful study of the Rosetta Stone, Shang Bolian found that the Egyptian hieroglyphs inscribed on the stele were very close to the Chinese phonological characters.
Through the pronunciation of Chinese, Shang Boliang quickly translated these symbols into 7788. It is understandable that experts who are proficient in the European language system have not been able to parse these symbols, because their language and their language habits are different, and it is almost impossible to crack these symbols.
Chamborion used his culture and culture to translate many Egyptian languages, and was praised by the linguistic community as the father of Egyptology, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Egyptian literature and history. The Rosetta Stone is also a pivotal figure in Europe and is still worshipped today. History is fundamental to human existence, so if we continue to explore, we may be inspired by it to promote the development of existing civilizations.