Comment on Was the intention of the Rosetta Stone to preserve history?

lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The stone was a part of a steele that was displayed in a temple.

The translated text is essentially an announcement or decree for a new Egyptian regime, and wasn’t necessarily written with the intent to preserve history.

The reason why it’s in three languages is because each of those languages served a different purpose.

“hieroglyphs (suitable for a priestly decree), Demotic (the cursive Egyptian script used for daily purposes, meaning ‘language of the people’), and Ancient Greek (the language of the administration – the rulers of Egypt at this point were Greco-Macedonian after Alexander the Great’s conquest.”

You can read more about it here or do your own research. britishmuseum.org/…/everything-you-ever-wanted-kn…

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