What You Don't Know About The Rosetta Stone

We've all heard of the Rosetta Stone, either the language-learning software or the stone itself. But how much do you really know about it? Let's get into the full history of this icon of ancient Egypt, what we learned from studying it, and why it's a controversial object even today. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) **We have a few corrections for this video. Thank you to everyone who flagged these issues for us!** Corrections: This should say that Christianity became the official religion in the 4th century CE. This should say that Champollion approached it as a phonetic writing system rather than a logographic one. This should say “We now know that hieroglyphs are a mix of semantic and phonetic”