2. The Social Pyramid

3. Ancient Egyptian Language

4. Learning Goals Analyze the development of written communication
Assess criteria that judges civilizations as being great

5. What is the Rosetta Stone?
A stone tablet found by the French in 1799
Contains 3 different dialects
Greek
Hieroglyphic
Demotic
Researchers were puzzled for years by the different writing styles

6. Who Deciphered It? Thomas Young A mid-aged British scientist
Used cartouches to identify a name
That name was Ptolemy
Published and shared his results in Europe
Jean Francois Champollion
A young French scholar
Used Young's work and finished the deciphering
Never gave Young any credit

7. Conventions of Hieroglyphs
Left to right, right to left
Top to bottom
Cartouches

8. Legacy of Ancient Egypt?

9. Legacy Anthropology Science Society
How the Pyramids were built: astronomy and technologies used in moving and lifting stone
Medicine: detailed accounts of disease and operations (mummification)
Time: 365 day calendar, 24 hour day (not 60 min/hr)
Mathematics: 10 base counting, some fractions
Anthropology
Temples, tombs, monuments with depictions of life and society in Ancient Egypt
Society
Religion: belief in an afterlife, judgement of good or wicked
Marriage: first equality for women in societies