HIS 104 Lecture 3: HIS 104 - Rosetta Stone

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 104
• Professor: Ross Fair

Document Summary

Treasure of the british museum: popular in the museum itself and in the gift shop, cultural connector, company ironically called rosetta stone uses it for learning languages. 3/4 ton block of granodiorite with decree of ptolemy v. Change in egyptian world and offered opportunities to explore the past. 3 languages: top for priests and gods to read. Hieroglyphic: last known use: 24 august 394 ad, on island of philae in the nile river, middle is day to day language. Demotic: last known use: less than 60 years later in 452 ad, bottom is greek. Used c. 800 bc to present: alexander the great, 332 bc. Egypt: old kingdom to the roman empire, c. 2650 bc to 390 ad. Great center of knowledge lost in alexandria. Egypt: byzantine to ottoman empire, 390 ad to 1798 ad. Byzantine empire arab empire ottoman empire. Parts of ancient egypt disappear into sand.