minus-squareArgentRaven@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in 1799, a French soldier discovered the Rosetta Stone, whose Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic texts made ancient Egypt readable again.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoDemotic, not demonic. Demotic is simplified Egyptian used by every day people there at the time. Typically, only the priests used the form of hieroglyphs we’d see on tombs. “Demotic” means colloquial, or common, speech. linkfedilink
Demotic, not demonic. Demotic is simplified Egyptian used by every day people there at the time. Typically, only the priests used the form of hieroglyphs we’d see on tombs. “Demotic” means colloquial, or common, speech.