Decoding the Rosetta Stone

Where is the Rosetta Stone located in present day?

• Egyptian desert

• Saharan desert

• gallery in France

• gallery in Britain

Why is the Rosetta Stone in a museum?

• artistic value, key for deciphering hieroglyphics

• historical value, helped understand the Egyptians

• monetary value, increased the value of the economy

• spiritual value, religion played a major role with it

How can we tell that their "sacred writing" system was important to ancient Egyptians?

• only few are able to decode it

• sacred people are only able to interpret it

• art rarely included writing

• Kings and queens were the only ones to read them

At the top of the Rosetta Stone, a message was written in what?

• hieroglyphics

• paintings

• mud

• chalk

What is in the center of the Rosetta Stone?

• braille

• Demotic script

• moldings

• stones

What was at the bottom of the Rosetta Stone?

• carvings

• artwork

• ancient Greek

• beads

How many languages and scripts did the Rosetta Stone have?

• 6 languages, 3 scripts

• 4 languages, 2 scripts

• 4 languages, 4 scripts

• 2 languages, 3 scripts

Why is the message on the Rosetta Stone significant?

• to pass it along to other civilizations

• to bring unity to the empires

• to understand Ancient Egypt's hieroglyphics

• to comprehend the different languages

Who's soldiers unearthed the Rosetta Stone in 1978?

• Napoleon

• Stalin

• Hitler

• Louvre

Who gets control of the Rosetta Stone as a result of a peace treaty?

• Germans

• French

• Swedish

• British