DEMYSTIFIED: What does the Rosetta Stone say? | Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Rosetta Stone is one of the modern world's most tangible links to ancient Egypt. But, what does it say? If you were hoping for some profound wisdom reaching across the centuries, prepare to be slightly disappointed.

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[winnifredforbes]

I can just visualize the poor dude carving this out on the stone. He's halfway finished and he notices he made a spelling error!

[messianic_scam]

You still didnt say what it says all you want us to know Ptolemy but how can we be sure

[kimsherlock]

"Carved in stone"
A good expression of lasting words .
Head Stone carved
Relays a story of the dead beneath.

[MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Kilroy was here? BCE? Before Commies Emerged?

[randysmith]

You didn’t demystify it, i still don’t know what it says, i get what its about.

[williamfitts]

Im more confused now than before watching

[ani-svfh]

Was hoping for archaic poetry😂 everyone craves that

[Matt_Fields_]

In the reign of the new king who was Lord of the diadems, great in glory, the stabilizer of Egypt, and also pious in matters relating to the gods, superior to his adversaries, rectifier of the life of men, Lord of the thirty-year periods like Hephaestus the Great, King like the Sun, the Great King of the Upper and Lower Lands, offspring of the Parent-loving gods, whom Hephaestus has approved, to whom the Sun has given victory, living image of Zeus, Son of the Sun, Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah;
In the ninth year, when Aëtus, son of Aëtus, was priest of Alexander and of the Savior gods and the Brother gods and the Benefactor gods and the Parent-loving gods and the god Manifest and Gracious; Pyrrha, the daughter of Philinius, being athlophorus for Bernice Euergetis; Areia, the daughter of Diogenes, being canephorus for Arsinoë Philadelphus; Irene, the daughter of Ptolemy, being priestess of Arsinoë Philopator: on the fourth of the month Xanicus, or according to the Egyptians the eighteenth of Mecheir.
THE DECREE: The high priests and prophets, and those who enter the inner shrine in order to robe the gods, and those who wear the hawk's wing, and the sacred scribes, and all the other priests who have assembled at Memphis before the king, from the various temples throughout the country, for the feast of his receiving the kingdom, even that of Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, which he received from his Father, being assembled in the temple in Memphis this day, declared:
Since King Ptolemy, the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, the son of King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoë, the Parent-loving gods, has done many benefactions to the temples and to those who dwell in them, and also to all those subject to his rule, being from the beginning a god born of a god and a goddess—like Horus, the son of Isis and Osirus, who came to the help of his Father Osirus; being benevolently disposed toward the gods, has concentrated to the temples revenues both of silver and of grain, and has generously undergone many expenses in order to lead Egypt to prosperity and to establish the temples... the gods have rewarded him with health, victory, power, and all other good things, his sovereignty to continue to him and his children forever.

[creestee]

Some sources says its about taxes. The video here sounds too different from what ive heard

[aku]

Politicians like to brag. Sounds familiar. I'm the greatest president.

[yvonne]

There is only a way to decipher the hieroglyphs. You need two instruments:
(1) the symbolic algorithm, found by Albanian Genie Mr. Petro Zheji and,
(2) the Albanian Language.

You just need to read the Book of Petro Zheji: "The mesianic role of the Albanian Language". Albanian is really the Cosmic Language, close to the symbols. She is the mother of all languages. Furthermore you have to read the Books: "Thoth spoke Albanian" by Giuseppe Catapano and "The Enigma" by Robert D'Angely.

The old Sanskrit Language was in fact the Albanian Language. Sanskrit and Latin are dead languages, from the old languages is today alive only the Albanian Language, it has strong roots.

The Greek Language is a very new language, has no roots, it can be easy deciphered through Albanian Language too.

The Greeks manipulated the Albanian history, but this is a complicated story. The Pelasge/ Arvanite in Dodona, Epirus were Albanians, not Greeks. After the osman registers it can be easy proved, that 90% of the population at that time were Albanians. Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by Homer, he was a blind rapsod. These books speak Albanian, each Ethymiologe can explain that. Lezha an Albanian City was ancient Troy etc.etc. The truth will come soon to light, many documents and artefacts are collected!

[PeterMilanovski]

Well, this is old news and now slightly incorrect!
It has since been worked out that the middle text isn't Egyptian Demotic as thought because no one could read it due to it's complexity, it turns out that it's actually ancient Slavic Macedonian Sanskrit text (duh! Alexander the Great of Macedonia)..
There's a scientific paper called Tracing The Script And The Language Of The Ancient Macedonians PDF which is available for free download and shows how it was actually deciphered. It's very clear why it was difficult to decode, the Slavic Macedonian Sanskrit text contains vowels and consonants and way ahead of it's time! Not only can we now read ancient Egyptian but we can now known how it was said, exactly the way it was spoken back then!
This also shows that the Macedonians had their own language and literature! They weren't greek! And that also means that it was more about Macedonia and Egypt than it was about Greece who were under Macedonian rule just like the rest of the known world at the time!
I find it funny how from having greek troops in Alexander's Macedonian army it was made out the the whole army was greek..
How was it possible to convince everyone when the Greeks were under Macedonian rule, then Roman rule, then Ottoman rule? A country just isn't capable of greatness when occupied by another!
Greek history is wrong and needs to be rewritten! At the end of the day, all that is important is the truth which archeology is all about, the truth!

[andrewyarnot]

He didn't answer the question what's actually on the Rosetta Stone is it talking about accounting or what

[picterpreterearth]

No one has correctly translated the hieroglyphs from Egypt. No one could ever speak hieroglyph because it is not a phonetic language in any respect.
The glyphs are pictographic ideograms, each one conveying a lot of information relevant to the subject.
It is very simple to learn and understand as it was made to convey information, concisely and unambiguously. It was designed so that language didn’t matter to the reader, just understanding of what pictures are portraying.
An eight-year-old can grasp the concepts of the Hieroglyphs in five minutes.
Once read correctly, Egypt becomes a very different proposition and is important for humanity to know, which is why it is there.
Why we have accepted the obvious fraud that is ancient Egypt is mind-boggling and what is more troubling is that the fraud is endemic across science.
When you find out how to read the glyphs it is so obvious that it is almost embarrassing to admit we believed something else. There is no way for science to debunk its way out of the truth which imperils many a mighty institution and tightly held paradigms about who we are and where we came from.

[kernsjk]

Indiana Jones found that in the 80s, I know what I saw

[astridvallati]

The narrator makes a common grammatical error.
Hieroglyphs ( Noun) are the actual inscription or symbols; Hieroglyphics ( Adjective) describes the inscription ie, Hieroglyphic script, etc.
Obviously a failing in grade school English the difference between nouns and adjectives.
From a old timer with "Proper" English schooling...and not in England either

[marcoliocops]

Why do we say ce instead of ad. If we can simply forget Christ then Netwons laws should be called common laws, to be neutral.

[pagefella]

I don't think it's political propaganda.

[ej]

Why didn't you tell us word for word, what it says 👎

[rahulm]

these are all lies. the original rosetta stone has other secrets to reveal.