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Chapter 1472 Submerged Relief of the Temple
With a cry from the soldiers, the exhausted soldiers became excited again, helping digging down with all their might.

However, what was dug out was not a treasure, but a large stone slab covered with words, and it was a useless broken stone slab.

The Frenchmen muttered ruefully, looking very depressed.

There is no way, this is the white skin that many white powder fans in modern times, most of their ancestors three hundred years ago were illiterate.

And those who go to serve in the army are either hooligans or thieves. There are not many really good people.

Since these soldiers followed Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, it has not been uncommon to see those moments full of grotesque symbols.

At this time, a leading officer named Busa, he did not go to rest, but carefully observed the stone slab, thinking about his origin.

He found that this stone slab was not exactly the same as what he had seen before.

There are inscriptions carved in three languages ​​on the stone slab, and the bottom inscription is actually the ancient Greek that people are familiar with.

Realizing the significance of the slab, Busa immediately reported the discovery to his superiors.

Soon this matter was known to Napoleon.

At this time, Napoleon was on an expedition to Egypt, but he attached great importance to collecting ancient Egyptian cultural relics.

Therefore, the army brought a huge delegation consisting of 175 scholars.

Now that he had found it, he immediately handed over the stone carving to the archaeologists.

This is a black basalt rock carving, about 105 cm long, 73 cm wide and 28 cm thick.

According to the identification of scholars, the upper part of the inscription is the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt.

The lower part is the ancient Greek script, sandwiched in the middle is the secular script, a cursive script in the late ancient Egyptian period.

Thanks to the presence of ancient Greek in the stone inscriptions, scholars have figured out what the inscription was about.

It turned out that this stone tablet was the content of the monk's class in 196 BC.

In order to thank the pharaoh for his reward to the temple, they decided to celebrate the pharaoh's birthday as a festival.

The contents of the three inscriptions on the slate are exactly the same.

Scholars hope to use ancient Greek to make Egyptian hieroglyphs easy to read.

Of course, everyone knew it, and later interpreted it.

The writing on the stone slab in front of Chen Wenzhe is the ancient Egyptian writing, and it must be one of the oldest writings in the world.

It is a pity that there is no Greek text for these words, so there is no way to translate them.

It would be too difficult to decipher the contents of the records purely by words.

After all, this kind of writing is the same as the cuneiform writing of the Sunobel people and the oracle bone inscriptions of our country. They are all produced from the simplest pictures in primitive society.

Looking at this kind of writing is like looking at graffiti, so it is called pictographs.

This kind of writing is difficult to recognize, because this kind of graphic writing is composed of many birds, beasts and human figures.

Add to that the fact that they were often engraved on slate or wood, and very carefully painted and painted with thin bands, which made the content even more surreal.

The most important thing is the hieroglyphs after depiction, which are not only characters, but also colorful pictures.

Just like the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom period to the Middle Kingdom period from 213 BC to 1786 BC, they developed a cursive script that is easier to write from the hieroglyphs, called priestly script.

In the later period, more cursive fonts appeared in Egypt.

The traditional secular style has the characteristics of no pictures, and the writing form is simpler, and ordinary people can read and write.

In ancient Egypt, these several scripts can be used at the same time.

Later, Egypt was invaded by foreigners, and Coptic and Arabic replaced ancient Egyptian.

Slowly, the ancient Egyptian language was no longer used and understood in the following 1500 years.

From Roman times to the Renaissance, Europeans appreciated Egyptian culture very much.

But no one knows the meaning of the beautiful hieroglyphs on those inscriptions.

Chen Wenzhe is still very interested in how to translate the content of this stele.

Because he also wanted to translate the content recorded on the slate in his hand.

As the speed of backtracking accelerated, Chen Wenzhe saw the Rosetta Stone being transported to Europe.

This discovery immediately aroused people's interest in studying ancient Egyptian writing.

Some oval circles were found in the hieroglyphics, in contrast to the recognized proper nouns in ancient Greek.

Among them, Tolomi Alexandria, it can be determined that the hieroglyphic symbols in the original frame must be the name of the king.

Finally, a French scholar named Shang Boliang cracked the secret of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Shang Boliang is definitely a language genius. He started to learn ancient Greek and Latin at the age of 9.

Later, he mastered Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic and Persian.

He became a doctor of linguistics at the age of 22. In 1808, Shang Guoliang began to study the Rosetta stone.

He first found out the ellipse with Ptolemy's name written on it, compared the Greek text, and read out Ptolemy's name in Latin letters.

In order to verify whether it is correct or not, he selected a cup with the name of Queen Cleopatra engraved on it for comparison.

From that name, he recognized several new symbols, and affirmed the pronunciation of the pictographic symbols appearing in the middle of the two names at the same time.

Later, she successively read the names of Alexander, David, Caesar and many others.

After repeated comparisons, Shang Boliang gradually developed from reading names to reading out individual words, and finally read out entire sentences.

Shang Bad also discovered that Egyptian hieroglyphics, sacrificial script, and secular script are just three forms of a single script, and they can be converted into each other.

In September 1822, Shang Guoliang obtained from an architect two hieroglyphic pedals, which were obtained from submerged reliefs of an Egyptian temple.

Shang Boliang quickly read the names of the two kings of the New Kingdom, Thutmose and Ramses, from the rubbings.

Shang Boliang was convinced that he had basically mastered the mysteries of ancient Egyptian writing.

On September 1822, 9, Zhang Boliang announced to the world the results of his research on the Rosetta Stone at the French Academy with great joy.

Since then, this day has been designated as the day of the birth of Egyptology.

Shang Boliang is recognized as the founder of ancient Egyptian linguistics, and the Rosetta Stone is also known as the key to ancient Egyptian civilization.

From 182, Shang Boliang successfully deciphered hieroglyphs, and through the hard work of several generations of Egyptologists, people's understanding of ancient Egyptian characters has been continuously improved.

Later, various documents of the ancient Egyptians were continuously translated.

This enables people to conduct comprehensive research on the politics, economy, religion, literature, technology and even daily life of the ancient Egyptians.

Such a complete picture of ancient Egyptian civilization gradually came to light in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Seeing this, Chen Wenzhe roughly understood that the writing on the slate in his hand should be able to be translated.

However, although this palm-sized slab was also made by that soldier, it can be said to have the same origin as the Rosetta Stone, but it is not a part of the Rosetta Stone.

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