180 1 year, the French army was defeated. According to the armistice agreement signed by Britain and France, the French army must hand over important Egyptian cultural relics, including the Rosetta Stone, to the British army. 1802, the British army transported these stone tablets to London and deposited them in the British Cultural Relics Association. In July of the same year, the society made the Greek part of the inscription into rubbings and sent them to British scholars and other scholars who are committed to deciphering hieroglyphics. It was not until the beginning of 1803 that the scriptures and rubbings of folk characters on the inscriptions came out. In the same year, this stone tablet was sent to the British Museum and became its undisputed treasure.
Rosetta stone is made of granite, with a height of 1 18cm, a width of 77cm and a thickness of 30cm. The first 14 lines of popular style lack the beginning of each line, and the last 27 lines of Greek lack the end of each line. 1802, Swedish scholar John? John Akbrad found that in the oval circle of royal names in the holy book, royal names were spelled with letters.
Champollion, a French scholar, thinks that since these three fonts are corresponding in content, if each symbol in the holy book represents an independent thing, action or concept, then the number of symbols should be as much as that in Greek. However, there are only 486 Greek characters on this stone tablet, but there are 14 19 hieroglyphs in the holy book. Considering that there are some missing parts in the scripture, the actual number should be more. In other words, not all symbols express their meanings independently. He further found that there were 166 symbols, regardless of repeated hieroglyphics. Too many letters and too few words.
Shang pays attention to the symbols in Wang Ming's circle. At that time, it was generally believed that when the names of other languages appeared in Wang Ming's circle, hieroglyphics were used to represent sounds. In addition, there is no special use of symbols to express sound. Besides Rosetta Stone, champollion found more Wang Mingyuan in other inscriptions. He not only found the names of Roman rulers Alexander the Great and Ptolemy, but also found an amazing discovery: the letters used to spell foreign names on the Rosetta Stone actually appeared in the common names of the new kingdom of ancient Egypt, Ramses and Thutmose. The research results of quotient can be summarized as follows: vulgar style is just the abbreviation of Eucharist, and the grammatical rules of both are the same; Popular style is a more concise writing form than Eucharist style and priest style. Hieroglyphs are essentially letters. 1822, Shang published this research result, which marked the birth of Egyptology.