大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the Museum – but what is it? On the 201st anniversary of its decipherment, read on to discover how this ancient object sparked a modern rivalry that changed the world forever… ✏ The writing on the stone is a decree, saying that the priests of a temple in Memphis supported the king. The decree was copied on to large stone slabs called stelae, which were put in every temple in Egypt. 📜 The decree was written into three languages: Demotic (everyday script), Ancient Greek (the language of administration), and hieroglyphs (suitable for a priestly decree). ⛏ In 1799, the stone was discovered by Napolean’s soldiers while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It had apparently been built into a very old wall. 🧪 The English physicist Thomas Young was one of the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. 💡 The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realised that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language. Together with his knowledge of the Coptic, he began reading the inscription fully. 🏆 Champollion made a breakthrough on 22 September 1822, exclaiming to his brother ‘Je tiens l'affaire!’ (‘I've got it!’). He then promptly collapsed from excitement. ✉ Finally, on 27 September 1822 Champollion presented his research to Paris’ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, with his rival Thomas Young in the audience, and the rest is history! 🗝 Unlock everything you ever wanted to know about the Rosetta Stone over on our blog – just follow the link in our bio. 🔎 The Rosetta Stone, from Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt, 196 BC. #BritishMuseum #AncientEgypt #Hieroglyphs #RosettaStone」9月27日 19時30分