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| From | ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Big Star and Rosetta Stones |
| Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:06:58 +0000 |
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The Rosetta Stone can be seen British Museum. They have the Elgin Marbles there
too. The reason they could figure of the hieroglyphics was that the same text
was written in Greek and Latin...Correct me if I've got it wrong. Truly
amazing. Otherwise they might never worked out all that Egyptian stuff.
"Sager, Greg" wrote:
>
> The Rosetta Stone was a late discovery (1799, to be exact) that
> first allowed archaeologists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. For many
> centuries, the hieroglyphics inscribed upon the pyramids, crypts, monoliths,
> and temples that survived pharaonic Egypt had been a complete mystery. The
> Rosetta Stone, then, was a mirror into the distant past that allowed
> modernity to see and understand its forebears much more clearly.
>
>
> Gregory Sager
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