History
This European Army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799.
Who were the French?
His army discovered the Rosetta stone outside of Rashid, Egypt in 1799.
Who is Napoleon?
What is Three?
The location of the Pyramids.
Where is Giza?
This is the opposite of idiographic...
What is phonetic?
The French were defeated by the British at this Battle and trapped in Egypt without their navy.
What was the Battle of the Nile.
This British Naval Hero defeated Napoleon's armies and confiscated the Stone.
Who was Lord Horatio Nelson?
This was the language used by the Common people in Ptolemaic Egypt.
What was Coptic?
The only remaining Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What are the Pyramids at Giza?
This is the material that the Rosetta stone is made of.
What is basalt?
This was the manner in which the French had access to information on the Rosetta Stone.
What is, they made a copy?
He conquered the Egyptian Empire in 332 BC.
Who was Alexander the Great?
These were honorific markers, attached to the names of Royals in Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
What is a cartouche?
She was the last Pharoah of Egypt and married Julius Caesar.
Who was Cleopatra?
The current location of the Rosetta Stone.
What is the British Museum?
This was likely the original location of the Rosetta stone (in what type of structure?)
What was a religious Temple.
Horrapollinis, an ancient Greek writer, wrote a book on Hieroglyphics that slowed down the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone because...
What was he got it all wrong and determined that it was all idiographic.
These were the three languages on the Rosetta Stone.
What are Greek, Coptic and Hieroglyphics
What is a carpet?
This was the topic of the Rosetta Stone.
What was taxes?
What empire likely destroyed any religious temples in Egypt - moving the location of the Rosetta Stone.
He was the French philologist and Egyptologist that deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
Who was Jean Francois Champollion?
This means that each picture/drawing represents a thing or concept.
What is idiographic?
The decree made in the Rosetta Stone was likely made in this ancient Egyptian City...(hint... there is one in the U.S. as well... Tennessee)
Where is Memphis?
When killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Lord Nelson was preserved in this liquid for the ride home to Great Britain?
What was Brandy?