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How did scholars begin to decipher ancient scripts like the hieroglyphs?
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Very soon after the birth of the first written language – cuneiform – ancient Egypt developed its own writing: the hieroglyphic script, immortalised in the Rosetta Stone kept in the British Museum, which consists of a single royal edict, dated 196 BC, written in the hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek alphabetic scripts.
Andrew Robinson is the author of more than twenty-five books, issued by leading general and academic publishers. In addition to “Cracking the Egyptian Code”, they include “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” (a biography of Thomas Young): https://geni.us/XIBXvR , and “Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts”: https://geni.us/iqP0Q. A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he also writes reviews and features for newspapers, magazines and journals, in both the arts and sciences.
This talk was filmed in the Ri on 18 January 2019.
Watch the second talk on ancient codes, all about the cuneiform language by Irving Finkel: https://youtu.be/PfYYraMgiBA
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Dude kinda looks like Stephen King….
I find it interesting the Egyptians could not read there own hieroglyphs and had no knowledge at all about the Giza Pyramids then came up with a the Pyramid Tomb theory that is refuted because no Pyramids in Egypt were found to be tombs ?
The Queens and Kings chambers were fictionally named why is the big question ?
The Physical rain erosion on the Sphinx destroys everything the Egyptians say about the Sphinx ?
The vast erosion must have come when the heavy rain occurred 10,000 years ago before the Egyptians were there !
All the Kings tombs are found in the Valley of the Kings yet they came up with fiction to explain why the Giza pyramids were built perhaps because they do not themselves understand why the pyramids were built for ????
The Giza Plateu was leveled before the Pyramids were built , when this started is a good question as no one knows for sure ?
Why were they build and who really picked the location first to carve the Sphinx is quite a mystery !
No Hieroglyphs were in any of the 3 Giza pyramids or paintings except badly done on one spot that said King Kuafu after the Egyptians finally got inside and is suspect evidence for dating the pyramids ?
Every bit of what the Egyptians said is suspect after so much false information was given by Egyptian authorities of Archeology !
It 2019 and we still do not understand why the Giza Pyramids were even built and by whom is a mystery also because the dates given are not reliable and you cannot date rock yet no Giza Pyramid building information is in the Egyptian recorded works they have for other monuments of Statues ?
The modern investigations have rendered all textbooks false as tombs and dates are not correct assumptions by the Egyptians at all !
Not recording the Pyramid building at Giza throws doubt on who actually built the pyramids at Giza as these are by far more perfect than other Egyptian pyramids ?
Trying some words only is vain for a complex meaning, there is no traduction as we think. its more like many levels of understanding. "Donnation to gods" is just the first level for example. We need to associate numerology, symbols etc…Champollion school is ending ! The knowlege about history we gain is short, and even partially wrong. Translate this in a modern langage is not very usefull in that way.
Great lecture. Just can't help wishing he'd waxed his forearms. Those tufts are very distracting.
Superb presentation Andrew. If you are reading this, what would be the most sacred or beautiful Hieroglyphs? For example, in English "as above so below" is considered wise and has a deep meaning, etc.
Behold the love child of Bill Gates and Stephen King.
Great video. Is it possible for the presenter to be any more of a British professor?
This is quite a story and glad to hear it told with this much detail. Champollion's name is probably known to many people with a passing knowledge of Egyptology–but great to hear this fleshed out like this and learn what a true hero is is in deciphering one of the mysteries of the ages.
Excellent lecture
Sometimes even on youtube we can find interesting speech reconstructions. One of my favorites is this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=io0QFYxulV4
Thanks for the interesting take on the translation of ancient hieroglyphs.
erm eh erm eeerm em mm erm eeerrrmm em eh eh ermmmm ,,gotta stop errrrr every erm word ehh he say ermmm
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Is the universe the size of the proton?
Was it the size of the quark or the length of Planck?
The second question is about the existence of time and the size of the universe
When did the time stop when the size of the universe was proton or quark or Length of Planck?
The third question about the length of Planck and the size of the universe before the Big Bang
How do energy molecules appear if the size of the universe equals Planck's length?
The fourth question is about why the universe expanded
How does the universe expand if the size of our universe equals the length of Planck, quark or proton?
Why did the universe expand when it was equal to the length of planck, proton or quark?
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" Polishing the egos' of Royal Institution scholars that contributed a small part in the deciphering of Egyptian texts"'
Thank you Britons' for giving us Vyse the forger. Mention should have been made of Birches work.
I love this lecture. It was everything the title of the video said it would be! Good job!
"no one knows how to read it"????
Speak for yourself.
I already did…
The spheres above there heads was what they called "god heads".
The planets they're thought were in….
LISTEN TO THIS VERY VERY CLOSELY..
The planets they're thought were in….
If they had a bird head then it was that person's job to explain the sky gods.
Everyone understood the meaning of life was to understand the meaning of life back then.
So everyone in that kingdom was all of the smartest from all over the world.
This is why all of today's cities in Egypt have roots from many other cultures languages.
Egyptian is neat , you have to read it left to right, right to left, upside ward, and upside down.
Then if you read it in a mirror….. well you know.. I am crazy so why feed any belief systems (death in life)any further?
It is only harmful to all involved.
There is a great secret in the great pyramid.
"They" the "sages"/ "magi"/"divine order" /arrogant one's/selfish one's KNOW what i am talking about……….
Very interesting. I didn't know the fact that Egyptian writing was forgotten for 2,000 yrs. But how can it happen that the language of the whole nation was forgotten? There sure must have been someone who kept it alive. It's like forgetting English now.
Great mind, who almost does not connect to or need his body. Don't think he ever kicked a football or climbed a tree. In the future we can harvest theese minds and put them in a jar connected to the internet
Excellent talk. Thank you! Balanced and humorous, informative and super engaging.
This guy managed to put even an Egyptology history buff to sleep. So boring. It's like he intentionally rambled on. Insisting on throwing irrelevant superfluous redundant sentences at the end of every other sentence in order to fill time. Never have I wanted to yell "get to the point" more at my computer screen. Gives scholars a bad name. Watch Irving Finkel to see how someone who's actually knowledgeable and intelligent get's it done. History can be interesting and engaging and unfortunately this man does it upmost to make it the opposite.
The man with T-Rex arms.
For more on decipherment see the works of Dr. Bob Brier of LIU or Dr. Marc Zender of Tulane University. They are major scholars in this field.
Ammit looks to Tehuti in the weighing of the heart against Maat.
TOTAL B.S TOTAL B.S TOTAL B.S TOTAL B.S TOTAL B.S TOTAL B.S
This is a lil too nerdy for me. Lol.
This report does for Viking age runes what the Rosetta stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. I have discovered a dictionary that allows me to read and write in Viking age runes known as Elder Futhark as an ideogram. Please look at, 'The Log of the Kensington Runestone' on 'You Tube', for an introduction to my discovery. This show has been seen in over 37 countries to date. People have been sending me inscriptions from their locals and I have found I can read a number of them. Stories from over six centuries ago are now readable. Email (mrkejohnson@centurylink.net) for a copy of my report. Do you want to read the runes in your area ?
Your story is unstructured, images used are very unattractive and tell hardly anything extra to your silly facts put on a shelve using archeology and early Egyptologists work means…error, error, error. While listening to an unattractive voice horsing around with facts not even scholars to this topic would find useful. Sorry to say, but you are a perfect example of a teacher or professor that will not have successful students in this field. Chaotic evidence to a chaotic way of presentation. I seriously have no good words I could hand you. TRY AGAIN or keep the stage free for people doing a better job on explaining and teaching.
This bloke cannot make a paragraph with an 'arh', 'um', 'err'…. odious
Well uh and uhh followed by uh and then another uh. What the Uh.
What’s does the hieroglyph for ‘uh’ look like?
After watching 40 seconds of this video I feel offended. Chanpolion deserves more respect!
You can't understand a non-phonetic language by comparing names from a foreign, phonetic language.
western people will find it very difficult becoz of the approach to learn a African language , im Bantu speaking African and I see the similarities… I promise its in African languages
That sarcophagus is a more than 'interesting' item, when you learn that the Hebrew name for ARK and COFFIN are the same word, the same word as for Moses' little 'container' which he is found in the Nile ! Also, the fact that the name Moses means "A SON", just like Tutmosis meant a son of Tut. "ARON" is that Hebrew word of ARK and Coffin, strangely like the name AARON, MOSES' own brother ! Body/Soul dualism?
Why all the trashy comments? What is wrong with you poeple.
take a shot every time he says ahhhh or um
A lot of details about people and places but not much real content.. No real understanding of the hieroglyphs will ever be made until "science" realizes that our minds have 2 components one being synthesis and the other analysis.. as in home versus house.. fair versus equal. We have 2 states of mind. And unfortunately most people have been condition to be in one.. the lower mind!
Lol they are never going to decipher the hieroglyphics correctly without people of African decent they’re studying a culture that wasn’t them.
Chuck Norris is so powerful he can speak hieroglyph.
no one will ever know what the symbols mean….
Great talk, wouldn’t be great if google could help out on this?