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What's more interesting, IMO, how did Young come to his conclusions and how did others build on it (and on the Rosetta stone). Even if you know a little hierogl
by choeger 5y ago
What's more interesting, IMO, how did Young come to his conclusions and how did others build on it (and on the Rosetta stone). Even if you know a little hieroglyphs, how do you extend the vocabulary?
- dddddaviddddd 5y agoEssentially, Egyptian language survived as Coptic, which uses a Greek alphabet. The names on the Rosetta Stone are easy to find because they are circled in the hieroglyphs ("cartouches"), and it became clear that the symbols were phonetic. Once you know some phonetic symbols, you can quickly start sounding out other words. Knowing Coptic, you can start to understand what you can read phonetically.