The Rosetta Stone - Professor Richard Parkinson

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The Rosetta Stone is perhaps the most important archaeological find of all time; it was thanks to it that we understand the language of the hieroglyphs and came to comprehend the ancient Egyptian civilization that lay beyond them.
When the stone was discovered by mistake by Napoleonic forces in 1799, its importance was obvious; with the same text translated into three languages, it offered the chance at last to understand Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. But the cracking of the code was not at all straightforward and it took some of the greatest minds of Europe years before the most widely-anticipated code-breaking of all time was achieved.
Professor Richard Parkinson tells the story of Thomas Young, Jean-Francois Champollion and the other great Egyptologists behind the unlocking of the Stone’s secrets, while also offering us an insight into the story of the Stone itself, from the questionable artifact-handling of the Victorian era through to its place today at the centre of the British Museum and of the world’s consciousness.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
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  • @becsocsci621
    @becsocsci6215 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to the professor talk for hours. Ear joy.

  • @RYN988
    @RYN9883 жыл бұрын

    this was a total pleasure to watch!

  • @Marimilitarybrat
    @Marimilitarybrat4 жыл бұрын

    I understand that now, Egypt wants the stone back. However, if this stone had not been carried off to GB the interpretation of languages would not have occurred. The stone would have been destroyed by the elements or carried off the become the cornerstone for someone's house.

  • @shubethune5748
    @shubethune57486 жыл бұрын

    200 yrs later, another breakthrough by me...

  • @tesniward5388
    @tesniward53885 жыл бұрын

    Really educational thank you!

  • @francismadden8561
    @francismadden85615 жыл бұрын

    No mention of debt jubilee or debt forgiveness.

  • @samuelsamson330
    @samuelsamson3305 жыл бұрын

    Thanck you for good information

  • @samuelsamson330
    @samuelsamson3305 жыл бұрын

    I will download that

  • @marthavillegas6250
    @marthavillegas62503 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @anthonycollins5671
    @anthonycollins56714 жыл бұрын

    I have a smaller copy in my home, on display ,

  • @DaniloInderWildi
    @DaniloInderWildi6 жыл бұрын

    Can someone tell me where his beautiful accent comes from? Never heard anything like it. (Though I'm not an English man, either ...)

  • @lelouchbritannia8622

    @lelouchbritannia8622

    4 жыл бұрын

    As a Chinese I also think his accent is very beautiful,which is different from American

  • @joescerri8301
    @joescerri83013 жыл бұрын

    at 5:12, I noticed in the lower half of the stone, the surface chips are identical on both sides. Now this is BAD photoshopping. Great talk otherwise.

  • @nerolowell2320
    @nerolowell23204 жыл бұрын

    Why Egypt dont claim their artifacts and treasure been stolen by the British and French ?

  • @purplerain1975

    @purplerain1975

    3 жыл бұрын

    As Italian would, the Louvre is basically an Italian museum...

  • @utensils3000
    @utensils30004 жыл бұрын

    To go further, the hieroglyphs emerged from a period so long before the Greek or Macedonian script (assuming that to be authentic because of so-called Alexander etc etc) that the ideas on the stone would have nothing to do with the symbols in the hieroglyphs which they are basically saying are like letters in words. In other words there is no way to bridge the gap and the whole thing has to be a total scam by people with resources. Further, many hieroglyphs depict identifiable scenarios, armies, fleets and such, gods with qualities, nothing referable to phonetic sigificance. FURTHER there are more than one type of hieroglyph emerging from more than one period... Professor

  • @shahshah4527
    @shahshah45275 жыл бұрын

    I had also a stone like roseeta if anyone wants I ill send pics

  • @s.danevski4870
    @s.danevski48705 жыл бұрын

    Greek was formed as a political subject in 1832, how can there be Greek in the Ptolemy Dynasty? :)

  • @scottamon8908
    @scottamon89087 жыл бұрын

    "William John Bankes found it and he brought back to Kingston Lacy" typical Englishman.

  • @resenmkd
    @resenmkd4 жыл бұрын

    Wow Aegean’s =greeks you learn something new every day ay!?!!

  • @karenotte5420
    @karenotte54204 жыл бұрын

    They just found out they just activated there and that's that's his real life where that was oh my God

  • @bigboobmasterbaiter69

    @bigboobmasterbaiter69

    4 жыл бұрын

    in what country do they speak in nonsense?

  • @ninetyrraven9529
    @ninetyrraven95296 жыл бұрын

    False

  • @saskosiskov6250
    @saskosiskov62506 жыл бұрын

    the first language is Ancient Macedonian language

  • @malamatinas1

    @malamatinas1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sasko Siskov 😂 ancient Macedonians were Greek and their language was Doric Greek ,they believe in the 12 gods of Olympus, and they took part in the Olympic Games which only Greeks could in ancient times. You are Slavic and came to the Balkans 6AD . That’s almost 1000 year after Alexander’s death! Enjoy kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX5_05KwhMmbZbQ.html

  • @Penja18

    @Penja18

    5 жыл бұрын

    malamatinas1 slavs in macedonia 15%,slavs in greece 20% by igenea. Tell me again who is the slav here? Plus there was no such thing "greece" in ancient world. Macedonia was never greek but greece was much time by Macedonian rule... Should i quote you Demosthenes?... "not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave"

  • @jay23cr
    @jay23cr4 жыл бұрын

    It should be returned to Egypt! And the Elgin Marbles to Greece!

  • @sc-iu8jq

    @sc-iu8jq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha never we said no 🤣🤣

  • @sc-iu8jq

    @sc-iu8jq

    4 жыл бұрын

    So put that in your pipe an smoke it 🤣

  • @bluemeeni1658
    @bluemeeni16587 жыл бұрын

    That revealed NOTHING. Don,t waist your time watching this vid.

  • @amarumechina3085

    @amarumechina3085

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's not ancient at all. It's a Freemason/Rosicrucian construct.

  • @silvanaana7334
    @silvanaana73346 жыл бұрын

    Ptolemy of Greek descent ? Really ? He come from non-existing ethnicity ?

  • @silvanaana7334
    @silvanaana73346 жыл бұрын

    Aegeans are NOT greeks Sir. AS a Professor ,you should know that ''There were no specific nations and no specific country called Greece in the ancient world'' So WHY you continue and continue making mess of the history by using that word for that time. That is faking history by placing fictional assumptions that all those city states were ''greek'' - something they by themselves had no idea about. And you deliberately ignore the fact of the existence of the Macedonian (ancient) identity that has no match with the Greek, simply because of the non-existence of such an ethnicity

  • @malamatinas1

    @malamatinas1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Silvana Ana cry some more Slav! The Macedonians were Greek get though you’re thick Bulgarian head! Enough with this joke, Slavic tribes came to the Balkans 6 AD we are talking BC here..

  • @BudgetGainsByJJ

    @BudgetGainsByJJ

    5 жыл бұрын

    Silvana Ana with all respect Silvana you are just as Slavic as I am:) and there is no shame in that! We Slavs migrated into the region in the 6th century AD and we as a matter of fact fought against the native Macedonians (with the Bulgar and Avar tribes) and overran a lot of their territories (in the Aegean especially) if I were you go to North Greece for a trip (if you haven't been) and you will see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of inscriptions and other artefacts practically SHOUTING that the Macedonians and Alexander lll were 100% Hellenes! Just recently archeologists had dug up artefacts in pelagonia (Macedonia), Illyria (Present day Albania) and Thrace (the Bulgarian part) and the result? Everything was written and was connected (linguistically, culturally and religiously) with Greece NOT with the modern day slav Bulgarians, Macedonians or Albanians.... I've always said fighting over antiquity is going to do you more damage than anything else! ... my suggestion to you and please don't take offence, do some research on: - Bloody Christmas Massacres (the communists slaughtered over 23,000 Bulgarians in Macedonia throwing their bodies into the Ohrid and Prespa lakes, because they were "clearing" the region of "Bulgarophils") - The Miladinov brothers from Struga (with their "Bulgarski Narodni pesni) - Mara Buneva (the proud Bulgarian hero from Tetovo that killed a Serb offical for the sake of the Bulgarians in regional Macedonia, communists and ultra-nationals still continue to vandalise who tombstone until this very day) - the Bitola inscription (clearly identifies the people of regional Macedonia and Tzar Samuel as Bulgarians, and the communists hid this for decades and the Macedonian government still continues to hide it) - and ask yourself a question why up until 1991 communists had a law to imprison any self identified "Bulgarian" (Bulgarophil) in Macedonia for up to 10 years??? The truth is communism built a wall between you and the Bulgarians with the objective to weaken Bulgaria, destabilise and communise Greece whilst to gain access to the Aegean Sea and Solun (Of course your parents wouldn't know about all this because the communist bastards forced Macedonism upon them)

  • @rexhepirexhepi3541

    @rexhepirexhepi3541

    5 жыл бұрын

    He is giving a talk on the Rosetta Stone, not Balkan-name politics. He also calls it the English Navy, when it was the British navy - but who cares, because it is not relevant to the core subject which is the Rosetta Stone.

  • @entertherealmofchaos

    @entertherealmofchaos

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BudgetGainsByJJ good essay

  • @anakukunoski5376
    @anakukunoski53765 жыл бұрын

    One of the three languages is old Macedonian language... You are welcome!

  • @utensils3000
    @utensils30004 жыл бұрын

    it is all fake. If the symbols are indeed based on sounds, there would have to be many more of them to match up to the other script. Therefore entirely made up, all of it and a lot more. Not so, "Professor"?