Rosetta Stone

[kkfs.msboyd]

Post your annotated web list for the "Breaking the Code" as a reply to this thread.

[sarahlee2]

1. British Museum: This website gives background information about the Rosetta Stone. www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

2. BBC: It gives information about the stone after it was found and the effects that it had for scientists.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/rosetta_stone/

3. Schiller Institute: It gives knowledge about Champollion who deciphered the Rosett Stone and even more background about the stone.
www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/993_champollion.html

[michellelee]

The Rosetta Stone: This website provides answers to some basic questions about the Rosetta stone.
ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html

The British Museum: This website provides the history of how the Rosetta stone was found and exhibited in the British Museum.
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

MrDowling: This website contains the basic background information for the Rosetta stone.
mrdowling.com/604-rosettastone.html

[jessicashim2013]

1. Egyptian Hieroglyphics: Thie website gives information on what hieroglphs is, when it was started to be used, it is in the British museum and what alphabet represents. This was posted in 2003 so it is quite relevent.
www.nilestone.com/hieroglyphics.htm

2. The Rosetta Stone: This is from the British museum website (reliable information). It provides information about what some hieroglyphs mean and what they represent, and why it became the British's.
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

3. The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs: This article is from BBC, written in 2011 so its trustful and fits with currency. This article is about the decipherment of hieroglyphs by scholars.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_01.shtml

[cathysjun]

1) Champollion Deciphered Rosetta Stone: This website provides information of how Jean François Champollion deciphered the Rosetta Stone and what he was able to prove by deciphering it. <http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/993_champollion.html>.

2) The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone: This website gives inforation on who and how the Rosetta Stone was first discovered. <http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html>

3) The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone:This website explains why the Rosetta Stone was written in 3 different scripts. <http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html>

[sarahlee4]

1. Rosetta Stone 196 B.C.E.: This video gives us a breakdown of how the stone was found and how it was translated.
-http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-400-c-e--ancient-cultures/v/rosetta-stone--196-b-c-e

2. The Discovery of The Rosetta Stone: This article gives us insight as to what this stone is and also it gives us a detailed analysis of the stone.
-http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html

3. Rosetta Stone Found: This video shows us the stones significance and its history.
-http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosetta-stone-found

[stormy44]

1) BBC World History : Rosetta Stone
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/rosetta_stone/
- has photos and videos
-basic info of the stone

2) Rosetta Stone written by. K. Kirs Hirst
archaeology.about.com/od/rterms/g/rosettastone.htm
- The history& significance of the stone

3) The Rosetta Stone- Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx
-translating the stone
-conserving the stone

[seongrae]

Breaking the code- Rosetta stone

BBC- The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs:
This is background information of the decipherment of hieroglyphs. How the hieroglyphs translated and how they are written. It will be helpful to write the introduction about ¡°breaking the code.¡± Also can help describing ¡°Rosetta stone.¡±
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_01.shtml#two

British Museum: The Rosetta Stone
The half of the text shows the history of the Ptolemaic era and the army who discovered this stone and the current place where Rosetta stone is in. It will be helpful to write about the history of deciphering hieroglyphs and how the Rosetta stone was stored.
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

About.com: Rosetta Stone:
This website describes more specifically about the Rosetta stone. It shows how it is discovered, the content of the scripts, physical description, location, and decipherment of Rosetta stone. Therefore, it can help to describe what is written in the scripts or the physical appearances of the stone.
ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/p/rosettastone.htm

[sojounggg]

1. The British Museum
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx
-History of recovery of Rosetta Stone.

2. British website written by it's owner.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html
-Brief summary of information of Rosetta Stone.

3. History.com - video and articles
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosetta-stone-found
- articles of how Rosetta Stone discovered and stored in a museum.

[kevin]

1. British Museum
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html
It basically answers where, why, how Rosseta Stone was found. It also explains what Rosetta Stone said.

2. Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and society under the Ptolemies
archaeology.about.com/od/rterms/g/rosettastone/htm
This explains the history of Rosseta Stone and its importance.

3. history.com
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosetta-stone-found
It basically talks about its history till now.