The Rosetta Stone and what it actually says with Ilona Regulski | Curator's Corner S7 Ep7
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- The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum. But what is it? What does it actually say? And did you know that since the discovery of the the Rosetta Stone in 1799, another 27 copies have been found throughout Egypt, the most recent being discovered in 2011?
If you answered no, don't worry! Dr Ilona Regulski, Curator of Ancient Writing at the British Museum has this and so much more to tell you about the object that unlocked ancient Egypt.
If you answered yes, well done for having completed the set reading ahead of time. However, there's still loads more to learn about this amazing object, so stick around for a while.
If you'd like to find out more about how hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 1800s, we currently have an exhibition on all about it:
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt is on now!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3TeIrMh
#CuratorsCorner #AncientEgypt #RosettaStone
00:39 Where was the Rosetta Stone found?
01:46 What languages are on the Rosetta Stone?
02:20 What does the Rosetta Stone actually say?
05:14 How many copies of the Rosetta Stone are there?
07:30 What was on the missing parts of the Rosetta Stone?
09:15 Which language was written first on the Rosetta Stone?
12:31 What the hieroglyphs say on the Rosetta Stone
Want more Ilona? Want more Egyptian hieroglyphs? Check out our video where Ilona teaches you (and Nick) how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; ruclips.net/video/LwZB0MsXCjQ/видео.html
Can you please give me the link to the British Museum’s policy on the return of antiquities to the Australian Aboriginal Nations ?
Ilona has no thoughts on working with items looted by British criminals? Hm,
What are this polarizing people commenting . Why are such people complaining about everything .
Oh my, the age we're living in! Where knowledge is abundant and free! I remember I've always wanted to learn hieroglyphs ever since I was at second-grade elementary school, and that was from a torn yellowed piece of paper (probably from a book) describing ancient AEgyptian's writing.
Oh yeah...... ;-p ;-)
My partner is Greek. I'll never forget standing in front of the Rosetta Stone as he translated the decree to me. Profound moment.
Clever guy- it's ancient Greek so most Modern greeks cannot read it- the Equivalent is Old English: "Fæder ūre þū þe eart on heofonum"- Lord's Prayer.
@@paulvogt8492He is the cleverest! Greeks learn some ancient Greek in school too, so I bet that helped him out a bit. 😊
@@paulvogt8492 Actually it's Koine not "Ancient Greek". Still a few steps removed from modern Greek, but they would easily be able to read most of it.
@@carolinepace4577 yes, ancient greek is also learned here in Croatia in some high schools.
I had no idea that there were other, even better copies of the Rosetta Stone. This video was fascinating. Thank you for the clear explanation.
☑️ Yeah, way back then they couldn't just go to Office Depot and buy reams of copy paper. Ancient Egyptian photocopiers printed on blank tablets of limestone. They couldn't just plug them into electrical outlets either, so they were run by generators powered by water buffalo. Also, these 190BC era photocopiers could only copy 8 stone tablets per minute, and you were limited to 3 different fonts.
@@HighlanderNorth1 Well, if they allowed for font selection or substitution they had to be digital machines as opposed to analog. That's some impressive technology for the time. :)
@@HighlanderNorth1 HN1 ...............by chance , did you ever write for the Flintstones ????
@@dannycalley7777
You know, I didn't think of the Flintstones when I posted that, but that would be a fitting storyline for a modern remake of that cartoon. Back in the early 60s when it was produced, printer/photocopiers didn't exist. So you wouldn't have seen Wilma walk into Staples and load a ream of granite stelas into a copier.
@@HighlanderNorth1 The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....
I had no idea whatsoever about the actual history of the Rosetta Stone other than it being found by Napoleon’s army and how it allowed scholars to finally crack hieroglyphics. Now the fact that there were literally copies right across Egypt and oddly enough I never knew what it actually documented. This is just so interesting and well worth watching. Cheers from Canada
It's also part of my culture and I want to know why they wrote im fascinated
I remember being at the British Museum and standing in front and admiring the Rosetta stone, which was only roped off from the public, and not in an enclosure. There was a Greek boy standing next to me and I asked him, "Can you read it?" He said "Yes, I can read it." Amazing to see the gift this stone has given us to connect with an ancient civilization and to generations and civilizations to come.
Now we are throwing paint and oil on paintings because of I have no idea what they are fighting for.
"What does it say?"
"It says they have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."
Iv tried to see it up close several times but there are always crowds of pricks blocking it. Plenty of other things in the BM to look at though and brainless sheep dont know enough about them to form crowds around them.
@@problematic_canik If the security guards and museums were allowed to either punch or taser those asshats, those spoiled protestors wouldn't continue doing that.
The Stone is a faked artifacts anyway. The hardness of granite is high, its Mohs hardness is about 6, and cannot be carved on it without a specialized modern steel bit. The Egyptian did not even have iron at 189 BC. The Stone was machined/faked in the 19th Century to gain fame and profits.
I enjoyed how excited she got when showing the details of the writing. It is a pleasure to see some who obviously enjoys their work as much as her.
That was so nice to see! She just jumped with joy!
I wholeheartedly agree.
It is a common denominator of all the best researchers.
What is most fascinating is that she is an equally good teacher and explainer. Not only a researcher.
I also had a wank over this.
I saw _(a copy of)_ the Rosetta stone when I visited the museum and I remember being in awe of both the size and the happenstance under which we were able to translate old hieroglyphs merely, _almost,_ thanks to the ego and the honoring of traditional language of the Egyptian clergy! It still is a mesmerizing part of our shared history as humans. And so eloquently and enchantingly explained! Loved every second.
This is the most, for me, illuminating explaining of the Rosetta Stone I've ever heard.
Thank you very much Dr Ilona Regulski,
illuminating confirmed!
Illuminati more like.
One of the best parts of the video was explaining how likely it is that the Greek was written first and then translated to Demotic and hieroglyphs. I also didn't know so many copies have been found.
1. There are not a lot of bronzes unearthed in Egypt. The latest archeology proves that they were built by construction workers, not slaves. Slaves can eat high-quality beef and can be buried near the pyramids. 2. There is no history of bronze wares in Europe, only a very small amount of bronze is fished out of the water or bought from the antique market, so it is impossible to measure carbon 14 (compared with Sanxingdui in China to see what bronze wares can be measured by carbon 14) 3. There is no such thing in Europe Astronomical calendar (there are many observatory sites in China, there are no such sites in Europe, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years of continuous observation, calculation, and accumulation to have a calendar) 4. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, and China has unified weights and measures for more than 2,000 years. Many instruments related to measurement have been unearthed in China. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, so where does advanced arithmetic come from? History cannot be recorded until there has been no change for thousands of years. For the above points, can anyone overthrow it? If it cannot be overthrown, then ancient Babylon (someone obtained a cuneiform dictionary and translated clay tablets?), ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece are all false. Ancient Rome was a very small place not a great empire, let alone a civilization. If you look at the technology of the Song Dynasty in China and the Sanxingdui site, you will know the reason. Note that the first steam engine-driven car was also in China, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty, the creator of civilization, was stolen by barbarian Manchus and European missionaries, and rewritten the real history. 6. If Babylonian civilization is as great as described in textbooks, why is writing still written on clay tablets? Why not use noble sheepskin? 7. There is no such a grammatical dictionary for cuneiform, which can allow ordinary people to translate these clay tablets into modern characters. If there is no such dictionary, then they can make fakes at will.
The ancient nautical chart of ancient Egypt is marked as Babylon, which is the map of China 600 years ago（it was codified by European missionaries to 1601）：
www.loc.gov/item/2010585650/
This is a map of Europe：commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geographia_by_Ptolemy,_Aphricae_Tabula_III,_1540_Basel_edition_-_Maps_of_Africa_-_Robert_C._Williams_Paper_Museum_-_DSC00625.JPG
I too did not know until now there are other similar stones. It seems from this Egyptian would enviably eventually be understood.
@@beamazed1162communist dictators destroyed China
More content like this flooding across RUclips please!!
As a Greek, I can read the Greek text and understand at least 80% to 90% of the words. It is like reading a letter from the distant past.
I'm not a Greek native speaker, but I moved to Greece when I met my husband and I'm fluent in Greek and I was surprised about how many words on the stone I can actually understand even though I never studied ancient Greek.
@@BooksRebound probably the written language hasn’t changed that much. like one of the reasons old english and middle english seem so different to us is because spellings etc changed so dramatically - hwæt and what were pronounced the exact same but spelt waaaayyyy different for example
@@BooksRebound yes I'm not a native speaker and I don't know any ancient Greek, but when I look at ancient writings I understand a lot. The language didn't change as much as e.g. Latin that evolved into a variety of languages.
The fact is that modern Greek has an enormous number of synonyms, because they often use ancient and modern words parallel. Also often in composed words you find ancient words. Like fire is φωτιά. But fire extinguisher is πυροσβεστήρας, containing the word πυρ which is the ancient word for fire. And that goes on a lot with modern Greek. It's really a very rich language which makes it extremely beautiful, but also hard to learn.
Very cool
Very cool. Wow.
Yep, this is a reupload from a few hours ago. There was a big ol' typo in the last version. Sorry all.
Yours sincerely,
Nick 'Devine'
Welcome back!
Shall we repeat the comments we posted in the last upload, or had they already read?
@@wtfamiactuallyright1823 yes please
@@Hashtagcris lol seems you should be more concerned about centring your attention on those who plan to strip away everything within, The British Museum.
But based on the track record I've witnessed so far, many of you guys seem more intent on trying to give it away.
You're supposed to be the guardians of such things, get your act together.
This lady in the video was interesting tho, seemed to pass on useful details, far more than feels on how hard life was for the person who chiseled the stone.
you just didn’t like the comments that it’s wrong for you to keep it
Wonderful, Dr. Regulski, You have made what could have been a dry lesson into something fascinating. Thank you!
How very interesting. I never knew that other copies of this "document" had been discovered. All references I have seen merely point out that the translation of hieroglyphics was now possible but never the document's actual content. Your explanation is very clear. Wonderful explanation.
Ilona is a competent explainer; clear, precise, and accessible. Great work!
I love hearing curators talk about object they really love and appreciate, and know a lot about. It really shows.
@@Just_Sara Interesting exhibitionist.
I bet this lady is an incredible teacher. Clear and very knowledgeable.
I was going to say exactly the same thing.
A layman who hasn't dedicated his life to the subject walking up to a scholar who has spent her entire life studying this, and declares, "You are competent." Do you always feel the need to make overbearing, conceited, patriarchal comments when a woman speaks?
I have known about the Rosetta Stone since my schooldays and have seen it in the British Museum more than once but I have learned so much more about it today as a result of viewing Ilona's presentation. It was outstanding - thank you
1. There are not a lot of bronzes unearthed in Egypt. The latest archeology proves that they were built by construction workers, not slaves. Slaves can eat high-quality beef and can be buried near the pyramids. 2. There is no history of bronze wares in Europe, only a very small amount of bronze is fished out of the water or bought from the antique market, so it is impossible to measure carbon 14 (compared with Sanxingdui in China to see what bronze wares can be measured by carbon 14) 3. There is no such thing in Europe Astronomical calendar (there are many observatory sites in China, there are no such sites in Europe, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years of continuous observation, calculation, and accumulation to have a calendar) 4. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, and China has unified weights and measures for more than 2,000 years. Many instruments related to measurement have been unearthed in China. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, so where does advanced arithmetic come from? History cannot be recorded until there has been no change for thousands of years. For the above points, can anyone overthrow it? If it cannot be overthrown, then ancient Babylon (someone obtained a cuneiform dictionary and translated clay tablets?), ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece are all false. Ancient Rome was a very small place not a great empire, let alone a civilization. If you look at the technology of the Song Dynasty in China and the Sanxingdui site, you will know the reason. Note that the first steam engine-driven car was also in China, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty, the creator of civilization, was stolen by barbarian Manchus and European missionaries, and rewritten the real history. 6. If Babylonian civilization is as great as described in textbooks, why is writing still written on clay tablets? Why not use noble sheepskin? 7. There is no such a grammatical dictionary for cuneiform, which can allow ordinary people to translate these clay tablets into modern characters. If there is no such dictionary, then they can make fakes at will.
The ancient nautical chart of ancient Egypt is marked as Babylon, which is the map of China 600 years ago（it was codified by European missionaries to 1601）：
www.loc.gov/item/2010585650/
This is a map of Europe：commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geographia_by_Ptolemy,_Aphricae_Tabula_III,_1540_Basel_edition_-_Maps_of_Africa_-_Robert_C._Williams_Paper_Museum_-_DSC00625.JPG
“Beamazed”, it sounds like you have some political or nationalist bone to pick with Ancient Rome, Egypt, and the European Bronze Age. But almost everything you wrote is demonstrably false. Ancient China was a great civilization. Pooing on Rome and Egypt doesn’t change that in any way, except to make people doubt the credibility of non-Western historians and archeologists in service of authoritarian states.
@@matthewriffel188 You give evidence and refute them one by one, or you shut up.
Knowing something about the importance of the 'Rosetta Stone' already, I was flabbergasted when I entered the museum from the (newly covered) main courtyard and totally unexpectedly found myself eye-to-eye with this piece of history. It still brings tears to my eyes when I remember this moment. So good to have these important items on display for everyone. Thank you for having that.
The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....
@@D-E-S_8559 Nice theory you have here. Is it shared by specialists or is it just you who very cleverly came up with it?
@@klaasvanmanen8214 Where does one find this "specialists"...???
@@D-E-S_8559 Specialists are the ones who publish their discoveries and hypotheses in scientific literature, so that's where one has to look for them.
@@klaasvanmanen8214 And how does one get qualified to be a "specialist" ???
It is fascinating to hear the Rosetta stone being explained by a Belgian egyptologist with a very Polish name in slightly Dutch-accented English!
I thought she was Nigerian
I'd say bizarre.
The Dutch-accented English not so much, because she sounds like a Belgian from the Flanders region.
Rosetta woman explaining Rosetta stone
🙄
I first heard of the Rosetta Stone about 60 years ago in a history course at school. I have seen it referred to in numerous books, TV shows and movies since then, but I never thought to find out what the texts were about.....but now I know Thank You.
Also, did not know there were many copies of the Rosetta Stone.
Same here. I was a schoolboy in the 1960's (France / England / USA / Italy / Spain). I always thought it was a 3-sided, bluntly pointed black stone, about 3 feet high. This video was a pleasant eye-opener. BTW, European schools have higher standards than US schools.
@@brahmburgers you describe a pyramidion - choke on that French School punk.
😩✊
@@brahmburgersyea you guys require geography....
Fascinating. My grandfather an archeologist was at one stage, an expert in hieroglyphics and studied ancient Latin and Greek. He went on to work at Bletchley Park during WW2. It's great to get an explanation that is so accessible.
Speaking of fascinating, your grandfather.
That is amazing, it would be a great movie script!
He was a tomb raider. Give back all the stolen war crimes trophies.
LOL@@toolbaggers he actually lost his job with the Rockefeller Foundation because he was attempting to enforce protocols to stop exactly that (and which at the time were new). In fact he studied Egyptology but never worked in Egypt that's your assumption which you leapt at at because never miss an opportunity for some grandstanding, eh?. He was on digs in Palestine and was fired because he tried to stop pilfering and looting and they said he was interfering with the work of others. He code cracked at Bletchley park, worked for British Intelligence and post war documented the horrors in the concentration camps. What a fun job that was but someone needed to do it. A principled and dedicated person. So FU mate with your lazy assumptions and virtue signalling. You're the sort of person who is never wrong and one reason to not expect much from social media. Full of smart Alecs who leap to conclusions and probably are just nobodies IRL.
Oh yeah he'd knocked back a job at the British Museum before the job at Palestine so he was a bit snookered, since nobody refuses to work at the BM. But he wanted to work in the field. making false assumptions @toolbaggers is disappointing but it's how you operate.
And it's how social media operates too. I'm frankly disgusted.
Thank you Dr Ilona Regulski for providing us with a glimpse into our past. I first started studying the Rosetta Stone on my own in 1986, but I have never had anyone explain it so well as you have in this video. As some of the others have indicated - I was surprised to have learned there were more decree's discovered and that the last discovery was 11 years ago. I also wanted to thank you for teaching me a few more glyphs from this video.
Lmao you "studied" it and don't know one of the most basic facts about it.
@@DrPeculiar312don't be a prick about it.
@@REAL2222ful bro said he has been sutdying it for 27 years and doesn't know shit lmao. He is being pretentious
The OP doesn't give any indication when in their learning journey they added that fact -- maybe in 1990 they found about the existence of the other copies. 🙄
Just came across this. Don't know when I've enjoyed anything lately so much or learned so much new even after a lifetime of fascination with things Egyptian. My deepest respect and gratitude.
I could sit in Ilona lectures all day. So amazing
She did not interpret the entire stone!
Some people just have that natural ability to be interesting.
🙋♀️me too!!!
I bummed a frozen chicken and I didn’t catch bird flu??? I think I maybe a freak?
There should be awards for RUclipss best videos. BRAVO to this one, in content and technical quality. Fantastic quality and so interesting!
Best is subjective. Just like and subscribe and keep it moving.
Thank you, Ilona, for sharing your expertise on the Rosetta Stone. I enjoyed the deep dive into the actual message conveyed by the stone.
Excellent and fascinating video. Thank you for posting and Dr Ilona's presentation
12:33 look at her excitement! That made my day. Excellent video from a very lovely curator!
Fascinating. Well explained. I didn't know there were other copies. And the closeups of the detailed text is very illuminating.
The task of writing the entire script on a stone had to be an enormous task . Thank you for the information . :O)
And it was basalt too
Fascinating. The fact that there are other stones too is new to me. These priests really delivered the messages, even after 2 thousand years.
I never knew there were more Rosetta Stones. And even a complete one! Best kept secret.
Very interesting, and an excellent presentation.
Not a secret!!!!!!
@@vincentanguoni8938 Did you know it? Before this video?
I did not know either, and I was saddened that the broken parts of the original stone still seem unknown, because you'd hope that additional versions would dispel any mysteries...
Question: Does RH refer to your blood type or is it just initials?
Maybe keeping a low profile in case Egyptians see this and decide to call for their return, for display in Egyptian museums.
I, like many here, visited the BM and saw the actual Rosetta stone. It 'wowed' me then and I still think about its importance for its aiding in the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. What a stupendous discovery in the sands of Egypt by French invaders. Dr. Regulski's explanation, history of the Rosetta Stone was excellent - concise and very informative. Thank you for making this video and imparting your knowledge to viewers here. I learned so very much. Much more than I ever knew before. So, again, Thank You!.
We checked off our bucket list of seeing the Rosetta Stone in Spring 2015. What an excellent summary and explanation of the Rosetta Stone. I did NOT know that copies had been found! Wish we could attend the exhibit, but since we are on the other side of the pond to the west, and no plans to travel currently, wish you the best in success of the exhibition.
Excellent video! I learned a lot about an object I had thought was pretty familiar. Fascinating and wonderful explanation. Thank you.
Thank you. Sharing how you have to choose a language in your work was a great way of helping me understand the possible approach the priests took and the obstacles to translation.
Brilliant! The ‘Stone’ and indeed Ancient Egypt has fascinated me for at least 69 of my 73 years, when a marvellous full coloured book containing elaborately lithograph-printed ‘cigarette cards’ from the 30s, amongst my grandparents’ books was regularly shown to me in my very early years.
One set featured the entire Carter expedition and every stage of his discovery, opening and display of the Tutankhamen Tomb in dazzling colour. The book in which these wonderful cards were contained was of equal quality and the whole thing made a massive impression on me and really ignited a love of history.
They had an illustrated version of Pepys’ Diary which was abridged into understandable text which was another big influence.
I have kicked myself for the last 60 years to not have ensured that these brilliant books are not in my safe keeping now.
Did you have a chance to visit the tomb in Luxor?
That is super neat! Its great that they made such an impression on you to have remembered them all of these years. cheers!
You would also like: A Mayan pyramid, in good shape, about 80 ft tall. It's several miles west of the Belizian town of San Ignacia, near the Guatemalan border. There are several 2.5 meter tall stellae there with Mayan pictographs, just sticking out of the ground, fully accessible. Xunantunich. One of my favorite places. I've been there several times and each time, no one else is there. I stopped doing LSD 50 yrs ago, but... . . .
Fascinating! I've heard of the Rosetta Stone, of course, but didn't know what the 'text' concerned (or even that there were other copies in Egypt, and that one had been 'discovered' fairly recently). So very informative.
This was the best explanation I've come across of the Rosetta Stone and the associated Memphis decree.
i was un aware of any other copies being found as well, they do say you learn something new everyday
Same here. Interesting.
@@fallinginthed33p what a generic comment that is highly predictable and pathetic.
Don't worry the vayivan and London will lie to you via omission and obfuscation to your hearts content while proclaiming to tell the truth. Its what they do.
That was a wonderful presentation Ilona . Explained in a fashion that non-academics can understand . Thank you so much
So much to learn in this one video alone. Excellent presentation.
Ilona is incredible ❤ please more episodes like this, I love Egyptian culture.
What a well done piece. I've heard about the Rosetta Stone most of my life. Curiosity led me here and this unlocked it.
Thank you.
I love that you can explain to us non professionals without speaking to.us as if we're children. Very interesting.
I'm so glad that we have people with the patience and intelligence to figure stuff like this out.
Archeologists earn 62.000$ a year 🙄I wouldn’t praise them that much. Who wouldn’t like to do stuff like this? We should instead be glad of the million unqualified workers that do the hard work no one wants to do to pay taxes to finance excavations, discoveries and scientists.
Ilona is a competent explainer; clear, precise, and accessible. Great work!. Ilona is a competent explainer; clear, precise, and accessible. Great work!.
It was the privilege of a lifetime to see this at the BM decades ago, and I still treasure my tiny replica.
I recently heard Ms. Regulski speak in detail about the Rosetta Stone on "The Ancients" podcast. Absolutely fascinating stuff. She makes Egyptology extremely interesting and understandable for a layman such as myself. If she teaches a course on the subject I would jump at the opportunity to sit in the class.
I'm 70, and would also jump at an opportunity to attend a class by her. I wouldn't mind also taking her out for a glass of muscat grape juice (I don't drink wine).
Ilona is genuinely impressive with her work and knowledge. im blown away at how she understands this ancient writing.
16:37 Her excitement at moving on to the details in the text is wonderful. ☺️ Incredible video.
16:37? The length of the video is only 16:34.
Just a few months ago I was able to finally visit the British Museum and see this and many other artefacts. I enjoyed this so much.
Wonderful, Ilona. You're so clear, so informative and so likeable. Thanks so much for the tutorial.
This was really good content describing some of the hieroglyphs and a history lesson about the stone and other versions of the stones aswell, i think the stone has been very well been documented in this video in a casual informative manner, Thanks for the info.
Wow! Thank you so much for your efforts to make this information accessible to all. This was incredibly fascinating.
Thank you for this, it was so interesting and informative! And Ilona Regulsk, is wonderful, at explaining its history, she really deserves to be on our televisions! 👌
What an incredibly interesting and clear presentation, both concise and detailed. Felt like I was back in a really good class! Intriguing elaboration on such an important and commonly known artifact.
Totes! She did miss that whole thing about it curiously being on a whole different continent than it should. So weird.
Fascinating information. Back in high school we had to choose a subject and create a craft of some sort, and I chose the Rosetta Stone. I created a Rosetta Stone from Plaster of Paris in actual size, but not thickness nor weight. I painted it black and then went about the task of etching as best as I could what the original stone had on it inscribed. I don't recall if I was able to complete all of it, but most of it I did and that was back in the mid 1960's. I do believe I left it at school for their display and I don't remember what became of it after that. But it was a challenging project. This was a great video, and I am very glad I stumbled upon it.
Cool. Your project sounds worthy of being put on display at your local gov't office or courthouse. Commendable. Plus, we're about the same age (me: 70).
Loved it!
Thank you so much for so much information!
Excellent. Ilona has a great way of explaining history in a down-to-earth personable way. Interesting how the priests kept the hieroglyphics as 'their' own special communication. The parallel with Latin came to mind and how the 'learned' and religious classes clung on to it in England. Well done to the British Museum for making history enjoyable and available for everyone it is the very best presentation and explanation of ancient Egypt's religious life and how it evolved I have listened to.
Wow! What an informative piece. Bravo to Ilona! This was the best 16 minutes on the internet that I have spent in a long time. This is real academia and much appreciated. Keep up the great work.
She gave you a heart. Lucky boy.
Wow. I had no idea there were so many stones. This was super informative. This channel always rocks with interesting knowledge.
Shoutout to Champollion, a genius scholar. Took him 10 years to translate the Rosetta Stone.
That's all ?!?
@@waxknucklebearingjuice5592 Yes, that's it.
He will like to read your shout out… and translate it.
What's all the shouting about
Yeah if you think the vatican didn't already have it transliterated and hidden away you have another thing coming. Nothing new under the sun kiddo.
What an excellent overview - Ilona was great - Engaging and knowledgeable
I am Greek and it is amazing how much i can understand from the Rosseta stone. It is a tourist ad it says'' come to Greece for vocations, enjoy the amazing islands, beaches and food '' .
I'd love to! Can I stay with you?
very cool! could you do more 'point-and-translate' segments on egyptian hieroglyphics? these were really interesting :)
Thanks for the suggestion, we'll try to set up another shoot with Ilona doing just that.
Yes please.
@@britishmuseum That would be lovely, thank you!
Yes it would be very interesting to see how things are being translated.
Egyptian hieroglyphs can be read easily using old Welsh without the guesswork.
@@britishmuseum How about stating why The British Museum/The King and previously The Queen thought they owned it because they put in the effort to steal it?
ONLY JOKING I KNOW YOU (WOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED) AND THEY WOULD NEVER TRY TO JUSTIFY THE THEFT! I MEAN WHAT COULD THEY EVEN SAY?
Personally i want to do an expedition to recover the corpse of Queen Lizzy and put it on display in a museum in my country!
This was a fascinating presentation that explained what Rosetta Stone actually looked like, its purpose, where it was located and an idea of how many copies of the stele there might be. Thanks
Amazing content! The references to modern times and human aspects of the translation are so intriguing, she makes an old stone come alive
Thanks for letting us see the back story. I had read something about the inscription implying multiple copies, but did not know how many had been found. I also appreciate the maps to place it all into geographical contexts.
It's so wonderful that so many copies were made. That's a good observation that the working language the one you think work and communicate with is generally a lingua franca from a region controlled by an empire. Interestingly if the demotic script experts were not narcissistic we might not have had the hieroglyphics
The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....
this is an excellent video. i learned so much about something so fascinating. i could watch you present information indefinitely.
Excellent and fascinating, thank you for posting . I never knew there were all those copies known . And that hierographics had been at one time used in every day writing !
Thank you, Ms. Regulski. I learned so many new things from your exceptional presentation. Fascinating how English is today's prevailing language in research as Greek once was. Wow! Hope to see more of your presentations!
What a fantastic explanation. Many thanks to Ilona and the British Museum for this wonderful video explanation. I have a small copy of the Rosetta Stone on my desk that was given to me by one of my work managers many years ago.
This is great. I would like to hear the whole decree translated into English, and statistics/representations of how much of the decree we’ve been able to recover from the various copies.
brilliant , looking forward to this exhibition very much, I didn't know about the extra copies and that has really excited me , thank you for sharing
Like most people , I had no idea that the Rosetta stone was one of many- thank you for a memorable explanation.
I remember visiting England on a school trip (16 years old, exchange student), walking through the museum and seeing the stone in front of me. I recognized it as the famous Rosetta Stone. But I expected spotlights and music and big arrows or signs...but no, it was just humbly displayed without fanfare.
I had the same experience when I came before the glorious stele of Ur. There it was, in the middle of the room, displayed with... An info card and nothing more!
BB...................was there at least a line ????
@@dannycalley7777 nope
@@gailascari Average Egyptian people can't visit the so called "British Museum" (funny to name it as such since nothing in it is British 😅). Shame!! Return it to Egypt.
@@hus390 You do realise it was just used as building material by the Egyptians and left to crumble? The French/British saved it, and have kept it safe ever since.
Worry about all the tombs still being raided regularly by Egyptian citizens, and the mummies and other "worthless" relics left to rot in the desert sands.
I have been to the British Museum three times and always spend most of my time in the Egyptian section, it is amazing.
And all stolen
@@tarrasacid1612 nope
@@tarrasacid1612 Ignorant comment. You could fill every museum in the world with what the Museum in Cairo stores in its archives. Modern Egypt owes a debt to Napoleon and the early French and English translators who respected artefacts when the 19th century natives (unrelated to Ancient Egyptians) did not.
@@acesul8811 okay so first stolen by the French, then by the English.
@@tarrasacid1612 It wasn't stolen. It was a brick in a house that the Arab colonizers of Egypt didn't value. In return Egypt got its entire history unlocked. If you can find an Ancient Egyptian I'll pay him for it.
just imagine having written almost the entire text, just a few more lines to go, and then you screw up in such a way that you can not hide......
I'm really angry at my dad for telling me the rosetta stone was just a collection of Egyptian knock-knock jokes.
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Thanks you for that. I've often wondered what the writing on the stone is about. I had no idea that there were original copies of it either. Fascinating!
Right? The fact there are other copies with more of the text never reached me.
Can you imagine how much would have been lost if the stone or the copies had been lost ? It’s unfathomable
Tremendously! Now if they only managed to figure out where the stones belong... It seems to elude them. Must be an imperial thing, seems obvious to me.
@@MikeGill87 Same, thought it was a one of.
@@javilorenzana What do you mean?
Excellent presentation !! I have always wondered what that stone was all about. I loved seeing you get so excited telling us about this. Your look was like... how I feel when I'm operating a bulldozer.
That was so enjoyable, informative, and clear! Thank you so much. I learned an awful lot in 16m for sure. :)
Thank you for a very interesting explanation. I learned a great deal of history today.
I can't thank you enough for this mini-lecture. Thank you. I wish I could come anf see the exhibition.
Riveting! Your explanations were clear and concise and your presentation beautifully constructed. You have wonderful diction, which made listening a pleasure! Thank you.
What a wonderful educational video. Excellently done, and incredibly informative. I knew the Rosetta stone helped to translate one language to another, but I didn't know much more. This makes me miss going to school to learn interesting stuff.
I've had lots of schooling and still learned much more new here. Real learning begins on the day that you graduate. If it ends on that day you are greatly to be pitied.
The knowledge you have is amazing, so- thank you for sharing.
I have few things to add. 1) Greek letters= greek letters- the intention is as written. Like we today say- latin alphabet or latin letters. 2) did word "greek" exist when this was written? what word was used to describe the letters? 3) as you said, there were different roseta stones put through out- could they be like notifications of post-coronation traditions that all people were to abide by. A little propaganda- similar, but with just enough changes to keep all areas sweet and informed. 4) it might not be normal practise today, but it was used to normal practice to translate the same word to mean the same thing, like apple cake will be apple cake in all languages translated using their words for apple and cake. So the same for translating temple names to "greek meaning".
What a great job she does at explaining! THANKS!!
I think the Rosetta Stone would make for the basis of a really fun game. If anyone has played Heaven's Vault, I imagine it to be a little like how the language deciphering part of that game works. I just think it would be fantastic to be sort of gently guided to decipher the real hieroglyphs as the experts did 100+ years ago using comparisons of translations between English and Greek, Greek and Ancient Greek and the Rosetta Stone to gradually figure out for yourself what it says and having the game reward you when you got a new glyph right.
Please someone make this game!!!
Fascinating. Thank you ilona, for this very wonderful and inciteful look into the Rosetta Stone.
I just saw this on my trip to london at the British museum and I highly recommend seeing it for yourself. Spent two days at the museum and still didn’t see everything, absolutely incredible stuff.
And it hadnt been for us 'thieving' whites it would've been broken and up destroyed by jihadis a long time ago.
mostly stolen though
@@roland-wo9ks If it would of stayed in the country it would of been destroyed or sold to the highest bidder. Egypt is not a nice place.
@@yank196101 would or would be not a stolen is stolen anyway
@@roland-wo9ks Not nice when these priceless objects land up in private collection and only seen by a handful of people. Surpriced the Mona Lisa isn;t it private hands. I travel alot and see objects that very few people are able to and think to myself it would be nice if this was in display for the world to see. Al, do you get out much?
This was incredible. Thank you Ilona
Fascinating. Well done Dr. Ilona Regulski!
Very informative! Had no idea there was more than one Rosetta Stone.
Forget the stone, Ilona's voice is so wonderfully melodic. I could listen to her read the phone book. :)
I visited the British Museum thirty years ago and was enthralled by the Stone. I had read about it as a young boy. Up until viewing your video, I had nevertheless managed to completely misunderstand the content - I had come to believe, somehow, it was a commercial transaction. One less bit of mis-information in circulation! Thanks!
So nice that you guys made this little video before giving the stone back to egypt....
Nice! I learned a lot about the Rosetta stone. I never knew there existed copies. Quite interesting!
I always thought the Rosetta Stone was fascinating. However, I never really had time to research it in depth. Never knew there were multiple copies of it. Thank you so much for you presentation.
Thank you so much for this I found it very informative.
I have no idea that there are so many copies of the decree. You did wonderful job of explaining not only the
languages that are represented but also the meaning of the words on the stele. Thank you again for this discussion.
Brilliant! Please make a "Follow-up" video in more detail. This is so very interesting. For linguists, this is just ambrosia. Thank you. PS: I must watch this again.
Have watched it over and over again, and there's so much to know and learn about, it's interesting.
SV ..............it was for me , a great Awwwwwwww factor !!!!