Re: Rosetta stone revision.

It was written in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. It was the
bilingual text with the known language, Greek, that made deciferment of the
unknown Egyptian possible (Demotic is simply a late form of cursive derived
from hieroglyphs). Coptic was a known language; it is still used as a
liturgical language by Coptic Christians.

-Weiben Wang

On Fri, 01 June 2001, Elliott Lash wrote:

>
> Actually, to make it more Rosetta stonish, it should be in three steps:
>
> 1:  An unknown language in an unknown alphabet (Egyptian in Heiratic)
> 2:  An unknown language in a known alphabet (Egyptian in Coptic--Greek
> letters)
>
> (snip the rest)
>
>
>  I thought that the Egyptian on the Rosetta stone was written in 1)
>  Heiroglyphics and 2) Demotic Script or am I totally confused?
>
> Elliott