As the soldiers shouted, the exhausted soldiers became excited again and helped dig in with all their hands.
However, what was dug out was not a treasure, just a large stone slab covered with writings, and it was a useless broken stone slab.
These French people were all muttering in frustration, looking very depressed.
There is no way, this is the white skin of many modern white powderers. Most of their ancestors three hundred years ago were illiterate.
Those who serve as soldiers are either gangsters or thieves. There are not many truly good people.
Since these soldiers followed Napoleon on his expedition to Egypt, they have often seen moments filled with strange symbols.
At this time, an officer named Busa led the team. He did not go to rest, but carefully observed the stone slab and pondered its origin.
He found that this stone slab was not exactly the same as what he had seen before.
There are inscriptions in three languages on the stone slab, and the bottom inscription is actually the familiar ancient Greek.
Busa realized the importance of this stone slab and immediately reported the discovery to his superiors.
Soon Napoleon found out about this.
At this time, Napoleon was on an expedition to Egypt, but he attached great importance to collecting ancient Egyptian cultural relics.
Therefore, the army brought a huge inspection group composed of 175 scholars.
Now that he had discovered it, he immediately handed the stone carving to the archaeologists.
This is a black basalt carving, about 105 cm long, 73 cm wide and 28 cm thick.
Scholars have determined that the upper part of the inscription is ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The lower part is ancient Greek text, and sandwiched in the middle is secular script, a cursive script from the late ancient Egypt.
Because there are ancient Greek texts in the stone carvings, scholars have figured out the content of the inscriptions.
It turns out that this stone tablet was the content of a monk's class in 196 BC.
In order to thank the Pharaoh for the reward given to the temple, they decided to celebrate the Pharaoh's birthday as a festival.
The contents of the three inscriptions on the stone slabs are exactly the same.
Scholars hope to use ancient Greek to make Egyptian hieroglyphics easier to read.
Of course, everyone knew it and later interpreted it.
The writing on the stone slab in front of Chen Wenzhe is ancient Egyptian writing, and it must be one of the oldest writings in the world.
Unfortunately, there is no Greek text for these words, so they cannot be translated.
It would be too difficult to decipher the recorded content simply by relying on text.
After all, this kind of writing is the same as the cuneiform writing of the Sunobel people and the oracle bone inscriptions of our country. They were both produced from the simplest drawings in primitive society.
Looking at this kind of writing is like looking at graffiti, so it is called hieroglyphics.
This kind of writing is difficult to identify because this kind of graphic writing is composed of many images of birds, animals and people.
In addition, they are often carved on stone slabs or wooden boards, and are very carefully painted with colors and traced with thin strips, making the content even more bizarre.
The most important thing is the hieroglyphics after carving, which are not just words, but also colorful pictures.
Just like the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom from 213 BC to 1786 BC, they developed an easier-to-write cursive script from the hieroglyphs, called the priestly script.
In the later period, cursive fonts appeared in Egypt.
The secular style does not have the characteristics of pictures, the writing form is simpler, and ordinary people can read and write.
In ancient Egypt, these kinds of scripts could be used at the same time.
Later, Egypt was invaded by foreigners, and Coptic and Arabic replaced the ancient Egyptian language.
Slowly, over the next 1,500 years, ancient Egyptian script was no longer used and understood by anyone.
From ancient Roman times to the Renaissance, Europeans greatly appreciated Egyptian culture.
But no one knows the meaning of the beautiful hieroglyphics on those tablets.
Chen Wenzhe is still very interested in how the content of this stone tablet was translated.
Because he also wanted to translate what was recorded on the stone tablet in his hand.
As the recall speed accelerated, Chen Wenzhe saw the Rosetta Stone being transported to Europe.
This discovery immediately aroused people's interest in studying ancient Egyptian writing.
Someone discovered that there are some oval-shaped circles in the hieroglyphics, which are compared with the recognized proper nouns in ancient Greek.
Among them, the Dharma Arishan is the largest, and it can be determined that the hieroglyphic symbols in the original frame must be the name of the king.
Finally, a French scholar named Champollion cracked the secret of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Champollion was definitely a language genius. He began learning ancient Greek and Latin at the age of 9.
Later, he mastered Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic and Persian.
He became a doctor of linguistics at the age of 22. In 1808, Shang Guoliang began to study the Rosetta Shimei.
He first found the oval with Ptolemy's name written on it, compared it with the Greek text, and read out Ptolemy's name in Latin letters.
In order to verify whether it was correct or not, he chose a common cup with the name of Queen Cleopatra engraved on it for comparison.
From that name, he recognized several new symbols, and confirmed the pronunciation of the hieroglyphic symbols appearing in the middle of the two names.
Later, she read out the names of Alexander, Alexander, Caesar and many others.
After repeated comparisons, Champollion gradually progressed from reading out names to reading out individual words, and finally read out whole sentences.
Shang Bao also discovered that Egyptian hieroglyphics, sacrificial script, and secular script are just three forms of one script, and they can be converted into each other.
In September 1822, Shang Guoliang received two hieroglyphic pedals from an architect, which were taken from the submersible reliefs of an Egyptian temple.
Champlain quickly read out the names of Thutmose and Ramses, the two kings of the New Kingdom, from the rubbings.
Shang Boliang was convinced that he had basically mastered the secrets of ancient Egyptian writing.
On September 29, 1822, Zhang Boliang announced to the world the results of his research on the Rosetta Stone at the Collège de France with great joy.
Since then, this day has been designated as the birth day of Egyptology.
Champollion is recognized as the founder of ancient Egyptian linguistics, and the Rosetta Stone is also hailed as the key to ancient Egyptian civilization.
In 182, Shang Boliang successfully deciphered the hieroglyphics. After the hard work of several generations of Egyptologists, people's understanding of ancient Egyptian writing has continued to improve.
Later, various documents of the ancient Egyptians were continuously translated and read.
This enables people to conduct comprehensive research on the politics, economy, religion, literature, technology and even daily life of the ancient Egyptians.
In this way, the full picture of ancient Egyptian civilization gradually came to light in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Seeing this, Chen Wenzhe also roughly understood that the writing on the stone tablet in his hand should be able to be translated.
However, although this palm-sized stone slab was also made by the soldier and can be said to have the same origin as the Rosetta Stone, it is not part of the Rosetta Stone.