Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Found in 1799
Key to the decipherment of Egyptian
hieroglyphs (translated in 19th century)
Dates to Ptolemy V (205-180 BC)
The Rosetta Stone
Carved in 196 B.C.
Contents:
1 passage
2 languages (Greek and Egyptian)
3 different scripts used in Egypt at that
time:
Hieroglyphic % the language used for important
or religious documents
Demotic % the common script of Egypt
Greek % the language of the rulers of Egypt
The Rosetta Stone
Deciphered by Jean Francois
Champollion in 1822.
Lists all the good things the
Pharaoh has done for the
priests and people of Egypt.
Recorded in all three scripts
to allow all people of Egypt to
know of the Pharaoh's
goodness.
Source: http://www.freehomepages.com/maddie/Babylon.html
Babylonian History
Babylonian civilization (modern day Iraq) -- an agricultural-based
civilization located in the “Fertile Crescent,” where the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers created valleys -- Mesopotamia, Greek for “between two rivers.”
Major Babylonian cities (Babylon and Nineveh) -- centers for administering
the irrigation systems.-- government, religious, and cultural centers.
Uruk (major Sumerian city) -- built by Gilgamesh, who also constructed its
walls as well as a temple for worshipping Ishtar, goddess of love and
fertility.
Already ancient when the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman civilizations were
founded, unfortunately, the Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations all but
disappeared, except for their monuments.
“The Epic of Gilgamesh” survived, due to its being written on clay tablets (12
of them); however, it was not translated and published until the 1870’s,
when its “flood” story shocked many people.
Babylonians, Sumerians, and Assyrians (Ancient
World People)