Comment on Was the intention of the Rosetta Stone to preserve history?
Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoThank you for that. It may have simply been a reminder about the knew 13 year old ruler, but there is always a conspiracy to fantasize about.
In fact, the text on the Stone is a copy of a prototype that was composed about a century earlier in the 3rd century BC. Only the date and the names were changed.
What happened in the 3rd century? Why did they choose to only make a prototype? How deep does this go?
lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure - you’d have to do some research on what that article is referencing. Search “Decree of Memphis” - that’s essentially what’s written on the Rosetta Stone.
For the history of those decrees you may want to look into “Ptolemaic decrees”