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Q: Why wasn't Meroitic translated using the Rosetta stone?
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Was meroitic translated using the Rosetta stone just like hieroglyphics?

Just like hieroglyphics, meroitic was translated using the Rosetta stone.


Is it true or false that Meroitic was translated using the Rosetta Stone?

just like hieroglyphics, meroitic was translated using the Rosetta stone


Was Meroitic translated using the Rosetta Stone?

no it was translated by using beer that would form into words


Was Metroitic translated using the Rosetta Stone?

no it was not it was used by unicorsns


Learn a foreign language?

good for you! may i suggest using the Rosetta stone program?


What languages can someone learn using Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone offers many languages with the most popular being French and Spanish, as well as special characters for those wanting to learn latin.


If the Rosetta stone was never found how will it affect what you know about Egypt?

If the Rosetta Stone was never found, we probably could still not understand Egyptian hieroglyphs. By using the Rosetta Stone, people can compare them to the other language (Greek) because when this was figured out, Greek language still was around. If this stone would have never been found, we could not decipher the meaning of Egyptain hieroglyphs.


What languages can be learned by using Rosetta Stone?

Rosetta Stone has over thirty languages to choose from. They include Swahili, Danish, French, Welsh, Arabic, Urdu, Vietnamese, Farsi, Dari, Korean, Japanese, Greek and Hebrew.


How did Jean-Francois Champollion decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to translate hieroglyphics..Jean Francois Champollion, the father of Egyptology, used the Rosetta Stone to decipher and understand hieroglyphics. This artifact is a pillar of black granite with three inscriptions.


What languaged were on the Rosetta stone?

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 is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt. The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents. The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time. The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.


Is there a icelandic Rosetta stone?

There are lots of stones around with viking runes on them. None as densely engraved as the Egyptian Rosetta stone, and none that have more than one language on them. However runes were used during the paper era and we have good representation for the language using them.


What are the purpose and significance of the Rosetta stone?

The Rosetta stone was the first archeological find which had both Latin, and Egyptian on it (of the same passage). This allowed archeologists and language experts to translate ancient Egyptian from a mysterious, lost language of symbols into something which could be translated by using the Rosetta stone.