Arrr! The Rosetta Stone be discovered in 1799, but took ages to crack the ancient squiggles, ye landlubber!
2024-09-18
Arrr! The fabled Rosetta Stone be the treasure that helped landlubbers crack the code o' them ancient scribbles! Spotted in 1799, it took ‘em ages to unlock its secrets—like tryin’ to find rum in a dry dock! Aye, patience be a pirate’s best mate!
Ahoy, mateys! Gather 'round to hear the tale of the fabled Rosetta Stone, a mighty slab of rock that be unlockin' the secrets o’ ancient hieroglyphics, which lay forgotten fer years, much like a sailor’s lost rum! Discovered in the year of our Lord 1799 by the French scallywags under Napoleon, this fine treasure was found built into a wall near Rashid, or as ye landlubbers know it, Rosetta.After the British bested the French in a naval tussle, they snatched the stone in 1801, and it’s been sittin' pretty in the British Museum ever since—except for a brief jaunt during World War I. This here stone, measuring 44 inches tall and 30 inches wide, be inscribed with the same decree in three scripts—Demotic, hieroglyphic, and Greek—like a pirate's treasure map, but for scholars!
It took many a scholar years to decode its secrets. The first to crack the code was the clever English chap, Thomas Young, followed by the French wizard Jean-François Champollion, who finally announced in 1822 that he had it all figured out. The inscription be a decree from 196 B.C., proclaimin’ the praises of Ptolemy V, king of Egypt, and his noble deeds. So there ye have it, a grand saga of decipherin' and discoverin' that be as thrilling as a high seas adventure!