Re: Rosetta stone revision.

In a message dated 6/1/01 3:09:52 PM, AL260@AOL.COM writes:

>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
You're right. It was in Hieroglyphics, Demotic and Greek ... Hieroglyphics
and Demotic were both unknown scripts and Greek of course was known. The
Egyptian language was unknown, but its descendant, Coptic, is known, so that
helped.

Josh Roth
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