As we all know, there are many mysterious cultural relics or buildings in China, which are still unexplained. For example, Wu Zetian's "tablet without words" is elusive, but in fact, there are many mysterious phenomena in the civilizations of many countries in the world, which the world can't explain and even many experts can't understand. For example, in a British museum, there is a mysterious stone tablet called the Rosetta Stone. Although it looks like an ordinary stone, it is actually.

Rosetta stone

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The material of this stone tablet is not mysterious gold or agate, but ordinary granite. Because the place where it was found is called Rosetta Stone, it is not called Rosetta Stone either. Now it is kept in the British Museum. Speaking of which, many people are curious. It's just an ordinary granite. Why should it be kept in a museum? There are even many people coming to visit in an endless stream. In fact, this is not an ordinary granite, but very mysterious. Because the stone is engraved with Greek characters, ancient Egyptian characters and popular characters, it is of great value to historical research and is very rare all over the world, so it is also collected by museums and even regarded as "the treasure of the town hall".

Speaking of the origin of this stone tablet, there is actually a legend. Although it is collected in the British Museum, it is actually a cultural relic of ancient Egypt. But why is it in the British Museum? I have to mention a famous historical figure. He is the French military genius Napoleon. 1799, Napoleon led an army to attack Egypt, and then ordered his men to build fortifications near Rosetta. In the process of construction, the soldiers accidentally discovered this piece.

No one cracked the secret of the stone tablet.

When Napoleon learned about it, he took a look at the stone tablet and soon realized that it was not simple, and the history of ancient Egypt must be behind it, so he ordered the stone tablet to be shipped back to Cairo. After that, Britain went to war with France and France was defeated. This stone tablet also became a British trophy, and then it was collected in the British Museum and became the treasure of the town hall.

When the Rosetta stone was discovered, many historians or archaeologists became interested in the secrets on the stone tablet. Many scholars came to Cairo, not far from Wan Li, to decipher the secret on the stone tablet, but so far no experts have cracked it, but it was not until a person appeared that the secret on the stone tablet was finally cracked. This man is champollion.

Champollion is French. He was born in 1790. Because of family reasons, champollion likes history and culture very much since he was a child, especially interested in the study of ancient Chinese characters. At the same time, he also has a strong language talent. 1 1 years old, champollion learned Latin and Greek, and he was able to skillfully use and master them. Because he showed a strong talent for language learning, champollion also learned some other languages and characters at school. 1803, champollion learned several languages, such as Persian and Sanskrit, and of course learned the ancient Chinese characters of China.

Champollion cracked the secret of the inscription.

Before long, champollion became an expert in ancient Chinese characters. By chance, he heard that many experts and historians in the world were interested in the secrets of the Rosetta Stone. And for so many years, the secret of the inscription on the stone tablet has not been solved, which aroused champollion's curiosity. Then, he began to concentrate on the inscription on the Rosetta stone. In later research, he found that when the ancient Egyptians wrote the name of the king, they would draw a line under it or use a square frame.

Later, champollion also found that the complexity of this inscription was comparable to that of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. As we all know, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China is a hieroglyphic and the earliest writing. Therefore, champollion concluded that the inscription on this stone tablet was also hieroglyphics, but he only knew that it was hieroglyphics or could not interpret its meaning, so he began to study China Chinese characters, because he knew that China Chinese characters were the only ancient Chinese characters that had not been broken and had been used for more than 20 years.

It turns out that the words on the inscription are hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt, which are mainly composed of ideographic, phonetic and radical parts. And ideographic means to express the concepts and definitions of some things in the form of pictures, similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China. Because ideographic only represents the concept of things and cannot be read by people, people invented phonography, and these notes are also some graphics. * * * has 24 sounds, and each word is combined with each other.

Inscription meaning

According to research, ancient Egyptian characters have a history of more than 4,000 years, which is similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China, or even earlier. However, due to the demise of ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptian characters have been lost for nearly 1700 years, so it is difficult for people to understand ancient Egyptian characters now, and it is even more difficult to study them. Fortunately, champollion appeared, and he finally deciphered the inscription according to the formation of China characters, and finally learned the secret.

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As the secrets of ancient Egyptian characters are gradually revealed to the world, historians also use ancient Egyptian characters to study ancient Egyptian civilization more conveniently. After the final study, the secret of Rosetta's inscription was also made public. The original inscription said that the monks in Memphis, Egypt, wrote a thank-you letter to the king at that time, who was the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy mentioned above. It is said that the king just ascended the throne. He pardoned the monks' taxes and made a lot of construction and contributions to the temples. Therefore, the monks wrote this letter, which is the inscription on the stone tablet in Bassetta, to express their gratitude. Do you know the secret of Bassetta's inscription? If you have any ideas, please write them in the comments section at the bottom of the article. Thank you!

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