Demotic

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most valuable pieces of art that is dated back to 196 BC. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 by Napoleon’s French troops in present day Rashid, Egypt. The troops quickly realized its high value and it was taken to France, where it was examined by Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion. Young and Champollion were two of the first people to decipher the ancient Egypt hieroglyphs by using the, “texts carved upon it… written in three languages: ancient hieroglyphics, Demotic and classical Greek” (“Should the British Museum Return the Rosetta Stone?”), which led to the understanding of the lost ancient Egyptian language and culture that died out in the 5th century. In 1801, the Rosetta Stone fell into the…

In temples, (the houses of gods and goddesses) the walls were decorated with pictures and writing that showed respect from the pharaoh. The priests who worked in the temples were scribes, they performed the sacred rituals that were believed to keep the gods and goddesses happy. They used writing because they needed to be able to read the instructions for the rituals. A useful artifact that showed us this writing was the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone was a stone that contained writing in…

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The Rosetta Stone is important to the Ancient Egyptians because, it is the anwser to Hierogliphic writing. If you closely compare other languages spoken at Egypt to the Hieroglphics you would understand what it says. Also acording to Ancient Egypt.com, it states that in 1822, after inspecting the Rosetta Stone for a long time, a man named Jean Francois Champollion finally understood how to read and write in Hierogliphics. Champollion was able to read Coptic and Greek.( Coptic is the present…

short amount of time, may get mistaken for the wrong picture or saying than was intended. All in all, the hieratic writing that came later than the hieroglyphics was just a shortened version with cursive added on to it, and no longer being able to depict the objects they were trying to display. Hieratic being less time consuming than hieroglyphics, became more widely known and used through this time era. Lastly of the Egyptian writings would be Demotic. “Demotic writing started being used in…

Although many single symbols were still used to write whole words or concepts, the symbol did not necessarily visually resemble the concept it represented. As Demotic writing gained popularity, it began to replace Hieratic writing in the administrative context, though Hieratic continued to be used in religious texts. Demotic writing was used until roughly 400 AD, when all three scripts began to fall from use in favor of the Coptic alphabet. 3. The Rosetta Stone; written in three scripts because…

EXPLAINING DEMOTIC TURN TO CLASS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REALITY TV SHOWS. In earlier times, men from high or royal classes, mainly protégés wrote most of the literature of that age. It had as its theme praise of elites or invocations on gods and as its hero an extraordinary man who completed extraordinary deeds. All the protagonists showed valor and sought glory. Then society witnessed the rise of middle class and along came the genre of novel. Gradually the heroes were of working class or…

Young, in 1815, had been the first to suggest that the demotic was not alphabetic but rather a mixture of "replications of hieroglyphics" and "alphabetic" signs. François on the other hand correctly considered the scripts to match almost entirely in different way by being able to express the same script in different formal fashions. That same year he realized that the Rosetta stone uses more than one style of writing he noticed that it was a mixture of ideograms and phonetic signs, just as Young…

treasures of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London. It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town named Rosetta. The extremely valuable stone was part of a temple, that was likely demolished when a Roman emperor ordered all non-Christian temples to be closed, then was probably used for building material. It was buried for centuries until French Soldiers found it while rebuilding a fort in Egypt. The Rosetta Stone holds hieroglyphics, Demotic and Ancient Greek languages.…

story begins when the Greeks asked everyone in Egypt what the hieroglyphs all all about in Egypt meant. Nobody knew. The Greek writer Horapollo figured out the meaning for a few of hieroglyphs, but had wild theories. James said, " He wrote that the image of a rabbit meant 'open' because a rabbit's eyes never close - an equally false statement." A man named Kircher was 'even farther of the mark than Horapollo' said James. Finally, in 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found by french soldiers. It was…