Ale Am on Spoutible

05 Sep 2023

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02:59 AM - Sep 05, 2023

Ale Am

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The glass to protect Rosetta Stone is so glossy that it reflects 📸 🎭 🪸

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The Rosetta Stone has identical content in 3 languages. Archaeologist thought the RosettaStone might be able to help crack the historic mystery.
Rosetta Stone (196 BC), Memphis, Egypt, one of the most important discoveries of the ancient world. It was discovered along the banks of the Nile by French soldiers participating in Napoleon's Egyptian campaign in 1799 AD. Message on stone is relatively unremarkable, but it’s written in three languages: two versions of Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. Interesting to read:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-the-rosetta-stone-unlocked-the-secrets-of-ancient-civilizations

07:55 AM - Sep 05, 2023

Ale Am

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Rosetta Stone, written both in Greek & Egyptian, proved to be the key that made it possible to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Few are aware of what it actually says. The stela was originally raised to announce an amnesty, both for debtors and for prisoners, declared by Ptolemy V in 196 bc,22

By the time of the New Kingdom (1550-1070) there is more evidence for markets, but it's only by the time we reach the Iron Age, just before Egypt was absorbed into the Persian empire, that we begin to see evidence for Mesopotamian- style debt crises. Greek sources, for instance, record that the Pharaoh Bakenranef (reigned 720-715 bc) issued a decree abolishing debt bondage and annulling all outstanding liabilities, since "he felt it would be absurd for a soldier, perhaps at the moment when he was setting forth to fight for his fatherland, to be hauled off to prison by his creditor for an unpaid loan"--which, if true, is also one of the earliest mentions of a debt prison.21 Under the Ptolemies, the Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt after Alexander, periodic clean slates had become institutionized. It's well known that the Rosetta Stone, written both in Greek and Egyptian, proved to be the key that made it possible to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Few are aware of what it actually says....

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06:19 PM - Sep 05, 2023 (Edited)

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