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  Rosetta Stone - Crystalinks
The Rosetta stone is dated to March 196 BC, in the 9th year of Ptolemy V. The background to the setting up of the stela was the confirmation of the control of the Ptolemaic kings over Egypt.
It appears that it was decided that the best way to emphasise the legitimacy of the 13 year old Ptolemy V in the eyes of the Egyptian elite was to re-emphasise his traditional royal credentials with a coronation ceremony in the city of Memphis, and to affirm his royal cult throughout Egypt.
"Rosetta Stone" is also used as a metaphor to refer to anything that is a critical key to a process of decryption, translation, or a difficult problem.
www.crystalinks.com /rosetta.html   (868 words)

  
 Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek).
The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..
The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk /writing/rosetta.html   (322 words)

  
 Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan: FAQs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The stone was discovered in 1799 when some French soldiers in Napoleon's army were digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile delta.
The stone was subsequently ceded to the British government by the terms of the treaty of Alexandria in 1801 and has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802.
The immediate importance of the Rosetta Stone lay in the fact that the Egyptian hieroglyphic text was accompanied by the Greek translation which could be read.
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /aes/faqs/rosetta.html   (463 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stone inscribed with the same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical Greek.
The Rosetta Stone is a copy of the decree issued in the city of Memphis.
The term Rosetta Stone has become idiomatic as something that is a critical key to a process of decryption or translation of a difficult problem.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosetta_Stone   (1576 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Rosetta stone
The fl basalt Rosetta stone was found in 1799, a year after the French expedition to Egypt began, in a fortress located on the outskirts of Rashid by a young French officer named Pierre-François Bouchard.
Studies carried out on the stone by scholars revealed that the stone was a royal decree which stated that it was to be written in the languages used in Egypt at the time.
The first scholar to make any sense of the demotic script on the Rosetta Stone was a French linguist named Silvestre de Sacy, who succeeded in identifying the symbols which comprised the names "Ptolemy" and "Alexander", thus, establishing a relationship between the symbols and sounds.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/770/he2.htm   (823 words)

  
 THE ROSETTA STONE
The Rosetta Stone is a fl basalt slab bearing an inscription dating from the year 196 BC.
The importance of the Rosetta Stone lay in the fact that the Egyptian hieroglyphic text was accompanied by the Greek translation which could be read and understood by scholars.
The inscription on the stone was a decree passed by a general council of priests which assembled at Memphis on the first anniversary of the coronation of thirteen year old Ptolemy V Epiphanes, king of all Egypt.
www.egyptologyonline.com /rosetta_stone.htm   (548 words)

  
 RosettaSite —   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rosetta is now using ISO 639-3 language codes in order to conform to international standards for language identification...
The Rosetta Project is collaborating with the National Anthropological Archives to digitize historic sound recordings of California Indian Languages for language revitalization and scholarly research...
Rosetta has recently digitized a collection of language recordings assembled by assembled by Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist well known for his work collecting and promoting American folk music...
www.rosettaproject.org   (190 words)

  
 Welcome to Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is the UK's leading provider of high business-value information solutions ranging from strategically focused dashboards to enterprise wide Data Warehouse strategy.
Rosetta Stone has the experience and knowledge to deliver a single 'joined up' solution tailored to your specific information needs and at lowest cost.
Rosetta Stone consultants are recognised experts in the field of data integration and the delivery of analytical solutions and are often called upon by Systems Integrators to help deliver a quality experience to their clients.
www.rosetta-stone.co.uk   (152 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone ESL Software
The Rosetta Stone has been selected by NASA, the Peace Corps, the U.S. State Department, and thousands of elementary schools, high schools, and universities worldwide for developing foreign language and ESL skills.
The Rosetta Stone CD-ROM series is the premier choice for students seeking to master a foreign language on their computer.
The Rosetta Stone intensive course is best suited for people who want a professional-quality language course to learn more than just the basics of a language.
www.esl.net /rosetta_stone.html   (725 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone: Language Learning Software
Rosetta Stone is the #1 language-learning software in the world, used successfully by millions of people in 150 countries.
Rosetta Stone’s award-winning Dynamic Immersion™ method taps the reasoning and language skills you used to master your native language.
Rosetta Stone has announced that the United States Army renewed its contract for a Web-based, on-demand language-learning program.
www.rosettastone.com   (254 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosetta Stone is a band formed in the mid 1980s around members Porl King (guitar/vocals/keyboards) and Carl North (bass), plus their drum machine and synthesiser rack nicknamed "Madame Razor".
Rosetta were one of the largest names in the 1990s goth circuit, easily commanding audiences of over two thousand when headlining festivals, however they seemed to prefer to have a more direct relationship with their audience and in later years would usually book short tours of smaller 500+ capacity venues which then sold out.
The band were named after the Rosetta Stone, an Egyptian historical artifact, and the band used much ancient mythological imagery, especially in their earlier work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosetta_Stone_(band)   (577 words)

  
 The Rosetta Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests, one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.
The decree is inscribed on the stone three times, in hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and Greek (the language of the administration).
On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the English under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found.
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ67   (583 words)

  
 Rosetta Mission Page
Rosetta will not meet up with comet Wirtanen as was originally planned.
The Rosetta spacecraft is actually made of two parts: an orbiter, which will approach the comet and then circle it, and a lander, which will touch down on the comet.
The Rosetta spacecraft is named after the Rosetta stone, a famous stone that allowed us to figure out what Egyptian hieroglyphics say.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/comets/rosetta.html   (256 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone customers tell us the program is equivalent to two years of high school study or one year of college study.
Rosetta Stone does not guarantee your ability to learn the language, they do guarantee your satisfaction with the product.
Rosetta Stone teaches a student to SPEAK and READ the language; it does NOT teach a student grammar to the same degree that one might find in a traditional classroom program.
www.sonlight.com /rosetta-stone.html?aid=1009   (2067 words)

  
 TIHOF - Jean François Champollion & the Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a metaphor for a key that unlocks a mystery.
Recognizing the importance of the stone, the French moved it to Cairo, where copies were made and sent to European scholars for study.
Discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the so-called battle of the deciphers which it inspired.
www.tihof.org /honors/champollion.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone is a slab of fl basalt dating from 196 BC.
Its inscription (a royal decree praising Egypt's king Ptolemy V) was written on the stone three times: once in hieroglyphic, once in demotic, and once in Greek.
Napoleon's troops discovered it in 1799 near the seaside town of Rosetta in lower Egypt.
www.ekac.org /stone.html   (108 words)

  
 The Rosetta Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 at Rashid in the Nile delta area during a military construction project.
Apparently, the stone had been incorporated into a much older structure which was demolished to make way for new construction.
The inscription is duplicated in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic characters, and in Greek, and was a key in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian writing.
www.cs.rochester.edu /users/faculty/nelson/pubs/rosetta.html   (93 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition: Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone method replicates this process by presenting vivid, real-life images to convey the meaning of each new phrase.
That said, using the Rosetta Stone is a lot cheaper than a plane ticket to Japan, or the tuition fees at intense summer Japanese courses at various universities around the US.
Rosetta Stone will not teach you a wink of grammar, so when you encounter things like comparatives, you won't have a clue WHY they're expressed that way nor even what each component exactly means.
www.amazon.com /Rosetta-Stone-Japanese-Level-Personal/dp/B000077DD5   (2769 words)

  
 RosettaStone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone led to the modern understanding of hieroglyphs.
Made in Egypt around 200BC, it is a stone tablet engraved with writing which celebrates the crowning of King Ptolemy V. It is a solid piece of fl Basalt and is 1m high by 70cm wide by 30cm deep.
He had to make his translations from a copy of the Rosetta Stone, since the stone itself had been stolen/seized by the English during the Napoleonic war.Champollion visited Egypt only once- to put his new understanding of hieroglyphs to the test.
www.kidskonnect.com /AncientEgypt/RosettaStone.html   (390 words)

  
 The Rosetta Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rosetta Stone was the key that unlocked the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Footnotes in the translation are taken from The Rosetta Stone by Carol Andrews.
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum: The Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic Texts of the Decree Inscribed on the Rosetta Stone by Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis, et.
www.rosetta.com /RosettaStone.html   (331 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Rosetta Stone
Liverpool's Rosetta Stone gained widespread popularity in the gothic scene with a highly melodic, danceable interpretation of gloom.
Epitome features three versions each of the album's "The Witch" and "Adrenaline," plus a dizzying cover of Eurythmics' "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves." Given such daring originality, Rosetta Stone came to be regarded as the saviors of goth, destined to rescue the genre from its backward-looking traditions.
Foundation Stones contains 1990 demos of eight songs that didn't make it onto the first album, as well as four live tracks recorded during the Adrenaline English tour.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=rosetta_stone   (297 words)

  
 Rosetta - professional software systems for your classifieds, directory and community websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rosetta has been building and managing large-scale database website applications for the world's leading media companies since 1995.
Our publishing clients use Rosetta System 6.3 to manage their high-traffic websites for classified advertising.
They choose Rosetta because it is reliable, scalable and very flexible.
www.rosetta.nl   (155 words)

  
 Ancient Egyptian Culture
The most incomplete was the top band containing hieroglyphics, the middle band was an Egyptian script called Demotic script (he did not know that), and the bottom was ancient Greek (he did recognize the bottom band).
He took the stone to the scholars and they realized that it was a royal decree that basically stated that it was to be written in the languages used in Egypt at the time.
The earliest translation of the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone into English was done by Reverend Stephen Weston in London in April 1802 before the Society of Antiquaries.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/hieroglyphics/rosettastone.html   (1684 words)

  
 ROSETTA STONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He made his first breakthrough in 1822, while studying the Roseta Stone, and soon experts were able to read the inscriptions that cover many Egyptian artefacts.
The stone is a slab of fl basalt, found near Rosetta in the delta.
Inscribed in 196 B.C., the Rosetta Stone was unearthed again in 1799.
www.bgst.edu.sg /realia/rosetta.htm   (154 words)

  
 Rosetta WebQuest
The Rosetta Stone eventually made its way to the British Museum, where it resides today.
At the conclusion of your study of the Rosetta Stone each national group of scholars (Britain, Egypt, and France) will make a presentation to an International Tribunal, which will decide the rightful ownership of the stone.
Each national group, in addition to providing information on the history and significance of the Rosetta Stone, will make a presentation to the Tribunal which will attempt to persuade that body of the correctness of each nation's cause.
www.yellow-springs.k12.oh.us /ys-mls/rosetta.htm   (407 words)

  
 Macworld: Review: Rosetta Stone 3.0
Rosetta Stone lets you choose the format you’d like to practice within each lesson.
Rosetta Stone builds on previous lessons, incorporating words and phrases from one lesson to the next.
Rosetta Stone would be more effective if it customized each language’s lessons to the cultures in which the language is spoken.
www.macworld.com /2006/01/reviews/rosettastone3/index.php   (893 words)

  
 Rosetta Stone
Within the scope of “authentic assessment” students consider the fate of the Rosetta Stone.
The Egyptians consider this stone an integral part of their history.
As they evaluate the importance of the Rosetta Stone to the world, they will address the ethical considerations, the interest of the different sides involved, and the consequences of each proposal.
www.ri.net /vidcon/SP/RosettaStone.htm   (551 words)

  
 Mr. Dowling's Rosetta Stone Page
The ancient civilization was mentioned in the Bible, but we didn’t know much about the Egyptians until a troop of French soldiers found a stone near the city of Rosetta in 1799.
That stone eventually made it possible to decode the ancient text.
The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with a law made in 196BC, written in two forms of hieroglyphics and in ancient Greek.
www.mrdowling.com /604-rosettastone.html   (165 words)

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