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Chapter 1471 The Rosetta Stone
The vast majority of Egyptian characters have radical symbols.

This script was often inscribed on temple walls, religious monuments, and papyrus, and was mainly used by monks and scribes.

Such Egyptian hieroglyphics had an important influence on the later alphabetic writing.

In different stages of ancient Egyptian history, Egyptian hieroglyphs have changed many times according to the needs of social life.

The priestly script appeared in the Middle Kingdom, and the civil script appeared in the later Egypt.

During Roman rule, the Coptic script appeared again.

This is an Egyptian script written with modified Greek letters.

Due to various historical reasons, ancient Egyptian writing failed to develop into alphabetic writing.

However, ancient Egyptian writing had an important influence on the formation of the Phoenician alphabet.

Around 1500-1000 BC, the Phoenicians who rose on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean traded with the Egyptians.

At this time, the well-educated Phoenician monks rewritten the simple hieroglyphs into orderly letters to help them in their business exchanges.

Due to the complexity of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, with the demise of ancient Egypt, this kind of writing gradually became dead writing and was completely forgotten by people.

So, how was this kind of writing discovered in modern times?
This has something to do with the slate in Chen Wenzhe's hand!
Chen Wenzhe suspected that the stone tablet in his hand was also something similar to the Rosetta Stone.

Even Chen Wenzhe suspected that this might be a part of the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is really important for the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

It is precisely because of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the success of some people's interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics that the history of ancient Egypt is fully displayed in front of us.

In fact, this kind of writing is still very recognizable, because the characteristics are very obvious.

For a professional like Chen Wenzhe who likes antiques, knowing a little hieroglyphs is really not a problem.

Oracle bone inscriptions and Zhong Dingwen are difficult to identify.

Besides, erudition should be the standard equipment for antique appraisers.

Chen Wenzhe knew that there are three types of fonts in holy books, inscription style, monk style and public style.

The inscription style was originally used by both refined and common people, and later became a solemn font carved on the stone walls of pyramids and temples, and painted on stone tools and pottery. It is also the general name of the three fonts.

The appearance of its symbols is very similar to pictures, but in fact most of them have long lost their pictographic function.

The inscription style is a decorative orthodox style, and the monk style is a practical cursive style, which is mainly used for religious scriptures. The internal structures of these two types of fonts are exactly the same.

The popular style, also known as the epistolary style or the vulgar style, is a simplified form of the monk style.

Now that I recognized it, the origin of the slate in my hand is not simple, so how did this kind of thing appear in China?It was actually bought by Li Tianqiang?
Speaking of which, the discovery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs was also accidental.

It was more than 1799 years ago, as if in [-], when Napoleon led an army expedition to Egypt, one of his officers, Bouchard, led his soldiers to build fortifications near the city of Rosetta, and found a piece of black basalt. broken monument.

Two kinds of characters and three fonts are used on the stele, and the same inscription is engraved.

The hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt are used on the top, the cursive hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt (also known as civil script) are used in the middle, and the Greek characters are below.

This is the famous stele that was later called the "Rosetta Stele" by the world.

If you want to truly understand the culture and history of ancient Egypt, you must understand Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Therefore, after the news of the discovery of the "Rosetta Stele" was published in the "Egyptian Newspaper" at that time, it immediately attracted the attention of scholars from all over the world.

They tried to decipher the words on the stele one after another, and the Greek on the stele was quickly understood.

The text in the middle of the stele was quickly confirmed to be the ancient Egyptian folk script.

However, although scholars can understand the meaning of hieroglyphs and folk scripts with the help of the Greek on the stele, they still have not solved the mystery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Surprisingly, the 11-year-old French teenager Champollion was determined to uncover the secrets of ancient Egyptian writing on the "Rosetta Stele"
He wanted the stele to speak and tell people the secrets of ancient Egypt.

In order to read Egyptian hieroglyphs, he worked diligently for 21 years.

Champollion discovered that when the ancient Egyptians wrote the king's name, they would add a box or draw a thick line under the name.

The "Rosetta Stele" also has text framed with lines. Is it the king's name?
After continuous exploration, Champollion finally read through the two hieroglyphs of King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra in comparison with Greek.

They can be spelled from right to left, left to right, or top to bottom.

Champollion was thus convinced that the pictographic symbols in hieroglyphs, in general, represented the consonant symbols of sound.

After hard work, in 1822, the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which had been puzzling for more than 1000 years, was finally solved by Champollion.

It turns out that the inscription on the "Rosetta Stele" is a letter of gratitude written by the monks of Memphis, Egypt, to the king at that time in 196 BC.

This king was the Fifteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ptolemy.

Soon after he ascended the throne, he canceled the taxes owed by the monks and opened up new sources of revenue for the temple.

He adopted special protection measures for the temple, which brought a series of benefits to the monks.

So it quickly won the admiration of the monks, so the monks wrote this letter of gratitude, and engraved it in two characters written in three fonts on this black basalt stele.

The small city of Rosetta is famous all over the world because of this stele used to solve the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

However, this famous stele is no longer in the city. It is collected in the British Museum in London.

Chen Wenzhe knew it was normal for such a famous stone tablet.

However, suddenly there is a broken stone tablet the size of a palm, engraved with an inscription that looks like the "Rosetta Tablet", that's very interesting.

Chen Wenzhe naturally wanted to make sure whether this was part of the "Rosetta Tablet".

Therefore, he naturally used the backtracking skill.

Of course, in front of Li Tianqiang and Chen Xingchen, it was impossible for him to read the history of this stone slab from beginning to end.

Therefore, he chose modern times, that is, the historical fragments where this stone slab was discovered, to watch.

Looking at it this way, he really easily discovered the historical truth.

If you choose a good time period, it is easy to find something.

Because the markers were too obvious, the first thing Chen Wenzhe saw was a group of soldiers.

They were digging or something, when suddenly there was a clang, and a soldier's shovel hit something hard.

He bent down, touched it with his hand, and immediately began to shout in surprise.

Although he couldn't hear what he shouted, Chen Wenzhe clearly saw that they found the stone box where the treasure was buried.

(End of this chapter)