It turns out the Rosetta stone isn’t actually unique. It was simply the first example found of what cane to be known as the Decree of Memphis. It was required to be put in every temple. I think the rally of these stones is up to six currently.
TIL the Rosetta Stone is a real thing and not some dungeons and dragons myth shit.
It’s even crazier there’s demonic written on it. I thought it’s something made up by Christianity.
Demotic, not demonic. Demotic is simplified Egyptian used by every day people there at the time. Typically, only the priests used the form of hieroglyphs we’d see on tombs. “Demotic” means colloquial, or common, speech.
Thanks for the explanation. I really need to get some sleep before I misread again
Everyday Egyptians meaning scribes, as most of everyone else were illiterate.
worth noting that hieroglyphics are absolutely fucking incomprehensible even if you know how to read them, and have fun etching that stuff into stone.
i wouldn’t call it illiterate in the same way as people are these days, it’s like calling most people these days “illiterate in assembly programming language”
Did you mean Demotic?
The funniest part was that when it was discovered, it had been used as a brick for building material.
In a way, it still is 🤯
TIL people don’t know about rosetta stone. My mom loves ancient Egypt so information like this was my “daily bread” when I was little, never realized that this isn’t common
Also about fourth grade history.
Yeah I remember learning about this in elementary school.
I love reading about the bronze age, but I didn’t know it was a French soldier that found it or that it was early as 1799. I expected it was much later, by some explorer.
Still took them 20 years to fully decipher the hieroglyphics.
