Question

What is the significance of the Rosetta Stone for Egyptologists?

Answer 1

Prior to the finding of the Rosetta stone, no one could read hiroglyphics. But the Rosetta stone said the same thing in 3 languages, including Greek which was known, allong scientists to translate the hiroglyphics successfully.

Answer 2

Because it contains a word-for-word translation in Greek. With the stone, it became possible to translate hieroglyphs.

Answer 3

Rosetta stone is a stone tablet found in 1799 near Rashid in Egypt that contained the same text repeated in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic script, and Greek, thereby supplying the key to deciphering hieroglyphics

Answer 4

yes becuz now they can idetify heighroglphics