Join us on the History Hit UKposts channel TONIGHT at 7PM for a live Q&A session with Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton. Here's the link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/f6Sjf4utpHhzoqM.html He'll be talking about his first full-length documentary on History Hit TV, 'The Story of Egyptology'. There'll also be a live watch-along of the episode and the chance to put your questions to the producers, Mark Edger and Milo Cumpstey. 😀

This should be shown to anyone who says history is boring. Even the history of exploring history can be fascinating.

Probably one of the most well presented docos i have seen in recent years. This fellow has a knack for explaning things carefully and isn't over the top with expressions or tv persona. Sorta reminds me of the great bbc docos of old, where the narrator actually narrates and informs rather than belittles or is comical about the content. Thankyou very much.

"The work done by Young & Champollion was truly magnificent". I'm not trying to restart the rivalry, but one guy's main contributions were making some random guesses and actively preventing his rival from getting his hands on useful sources; while the other guy's cracked the supposedly undecipherable code. One work seems a tad more magnificent than the other.

Egyptologist after deciphering hieroglyphs: "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!" 😄

It absolutely blew my mind to learn that this was the same Young who devised the original double slit experiment. What an absolute genius.

First time in my long life to find out heiroglyphics were substantially phonetic! That's a major revelation

I have always been fascinated by Ancient Egypt. Thousands of years of history all crammed into one country.

I believe Carl Sagan's Cosmos mentioned this story with an added detail about Champollion's childhood with the Mathematician Joseph Fourier. Fourier was on the expedition that discovered the Rosetta Stone, and Sagan explained that an 11 year old Champollion, gifted with languages, was invited to Fourier's office and was so enthralled by the undecipherable text that he declared he'd be the one decipher it. But is it true? How much did Fourier interact with Champollion? What Cosmos episode was that?

This video gave exactly what I was looking for when I searched for this topic.

All of this hinges on this one random stone that happened to survive relatively intact for close to two millennia. That, to me, is insane. We might have been able to decipher hieroglyphics without the stone eventually but it would have taken longer and no one would have ever been 100% sure that they were actually correct as they wouldn't have had a direct translation to compare their findings to.

I never comment on UKposts videos but did want to express how well put together and presented this is. Subscribed!

Amazing narrative and well research short documentary.

This was really exciting. I loved it!

Very interesting! Even with the stone, it's amazing that they cracked it. 👍🏻 New subscriber!

Imagine having to chisel a picture of a bird every time you want an 'a'

A great story, told well. Maybe you could do a video talking more about the Rosetta stone and the language lessons it contained?

Thanks for making this so understandable!

Absolutely fascinating

Thank you. Interesting subject!

Excellent ..well done

Please post some more videos from this series! :D

I’ve been waiting for this for a v long time., so thank you! 🙏

wow that was great. Nice work.

For me, even more fascinating and wonderful than Egyptian culture/history is the fact that Europeans, since the Renaissance, have this incredible curiosity, the fascination with new things and the drive to find out how things work.

Fascinating

Great, more please 🙏

Ive always wondered about this!!! TY!

Very nicely explained.

Fantastic video dude you guys really deserve more subs

Always wondered about this!

I visited the British Museum and stood in front of the Rosetta Stone all by myself for over an hour without a single other person taking the time to even peruse it so I got a good long uninterrupted look at it

Very interesting 👍🏼

I also do want to mention the Tanis Stone which was discovered by Leo Simon Reinisch in 1866, he later became the rector of the University of Vienna. With the Tanis stele's help a much preciser translation of hieroglyphs were possible.

Nice video. It would be cool to see you do one about how the Gardener sign list came about.

Superb thank you

Awesome I’ve always wondered how they read those and other ancient writings

Best video on Egyptian language

Brilliant thanks

Very good video, thanks

Amazing.

It occurs to me watching this video, that without the obsession with ancient Egypt and the break through of translation, people would proably still only see archaeology as treasure hunting and ignore a lot of important discoveries because they weren't pretty jewels or big monuments .

Overstating Young's input a little. He had a team working under him, while Champollion was practically solo for the majority of his research. What they did to him on his return from Egypt is a crime for the ages.

I've been asking for 1000 years how they figured out the ancient egyptian LANGUAGE. The only answer I find is always to a different question: how we deciphered hieroglyphs. There's a difference between knowing how to PRONOUNCE what is written and understanding the meanings of those sounds.

Thank you.

I get the impression there’s more to this video. As in it feels like it’s part of a longer documentary. One I’d like to see. Going through the actual language and the text itself is very interesting.

Fainted he was so happy/excited/shocked. Someday I hope to be that happy.

Je tiens l'affaire. The bench by the river Thames in London i use it all the time i love the place 👍

Imagine "dying" some millenias ago while your civilization is burning and dying itself, then being somehow brought back to life over 2000 years later and finding out that a handful of people managed to somehow learn your language and studied your civilization to the point of intimately knowing the greatest leaders of your time and your culture Our science is slowly but steadily moving towards playing gods and its awesome

In days of old, someone was always announced with a list of thier titles, eg: overseer of the canals, visier of the third temple, slayer of the Mongols,... With Egyptian heiroglyphs, I'm sure the pyramid, ankh, djed symbols represent something extra alphabet, like we would use a PhD these days. So a standard king's cartouche would be surrounded by ideas such as: builder of pyramid, builder of statues, master of agriculture, keeper of the knowledge of the ankh and djed.

Yes an immediate follow and thumbs up but I’m also very interested in the two guys at the end in armour ;)

Nice of you to gloss over the fact that the reason the British obtained the Rosetta Stone was that it was given to them by General Jacques-François Menou in exchange for not slaughtering the remaining French troops after the Siege of Alexandria in 1801.

Ive been to The British Museum and looked at the Rosetta stone. Its a fascinating thing.

Fascinating. Thanks to champeleon

I love the quiet disdain and begrudging respect French and British people have for each other. It will never not be amusing

excellent

Thank you I have always wondered how it broke down I have a thing for languages ever since I was a child

KFC in Chinese is phonetic "gun duh gee" which sounds similar to Kentucky. This is not just phonetic however as the word "gee" means chicken. Chinese writing "han zuh" sometimes uses a pictograph (often quite morphed over time) which contains meaning, and a phonetic component which indicates pronunciation.

Awesome💛💙

03:00 Ancient Greek could be read ANYTIME 😊

I loved the video

The Verdict of Champollion, humanity’s greatest polyglot, on the Coptic Language: Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832) deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822, and made it possible for modern Egyptology to emerge. He perhaps would not have been able to do that at all had he not studied Coptic first. There is one man, who is still largely enigmatic, who helped him to learn Coptic - Yuhanna Chiftichi, a Coptic priest who worked with the French during the French Campaign in Egypt (1798 - 1801), and left with the French, with many other Copts, to France when the French withdrew.[1] In France, he became priest at the church of Saint-Roch on Rue Saint-Honoré, in Paris. There, he assisted the Egyptian Commission in producing Description de l’Ėgypte; but, perhaps, his lasting service to civilisation was his assistance he gave to Champollion, who befriended him, to learn Coptic. Champollion knew many European and Oriental languages, at least sixteen in total, including Latin, Greek, French, English, German, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean (Aramaic), Sanskrit, Persian, and Chinese. When he became fluent in Coptic, he wrote in 1809: I have thrown myself into Coptic, I want to know Egyptian as well as I know French, because my great work on the Egyptian papyrus [hieroglyphics] will be based on this language. . . . My Coptic is moving along, and I find in it the greatest joy, because you have to think: to speak the language of my dear Amenhotep, Seth, Ramses, Thuthmos, is no small thing. . . . As for Coptic, I do nothing else. I dream in Coptic. I do nothing but that, I dream only in Coptic, in Egyptian. . . . I am so Coptic, that for fun, I translate into Coptic everything that comes into my head. I speak Coptic all alone to myself (since no one else can understand me). This is the real way for me to put my pure Egyptian into my head. . . . In my view, Coptic is the most perfect, most rational language known.[2] “Coptic is the most perfect and the most rational language known.” This is the verdict of Champollion on the Coptic language. Those who know Coptic would tend to agree with him. And the Copts must know this, and be sure of the many beauties of their language. ________________ [1] For more on Yuhanna Chiftichi, see: Chiftichi, Yuhanna (CE:519a-520b) by Anouar Louca in Coptic Encyclopedia, ed. Aziz Suryal Atiya (New York, Macmillan, 1991). [2] Muriel Mirak Weissbach, Jean François Champollion And the True Story of Egypt in 21st Century Science & Technology magazine, Winter 1999-2000, 12 (4), 26-39, p. 32. See also, Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code, The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion (London, Thames & Hudson, 2012), p. 61.

fantastic.....wish it was longer heheheeh

interesting. similarly old turkic script was decoded by the chinese text (translation). kultegin inscription was discovered in 1889 by yardintsev and decoded by thomsen and radloff only 4 years later. and the first word discovered was "köktengri" meaning sky god in old turkic.

Hello very great video. Is this based solely on whether or not the greek texts translates directly to the demotic and hieroglyphic?

I would like to have heard in some detail what the hieroglyphs say in the end. Anything interesting revealed by the ancient text then?

What fun that would have been cracking into the code. The rush, the feeling

I want that desk lamp

at the start of the story, how did young know he had the "tolomay cartoosh" (big apologies for the spelling) it seems like a guess that worked? this is great though thankyou.. could feel myself getting excited along with the progression of the story.

One notable early western collector of Egyptian relics: con artist Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism.

6:52 + - wisdom turned by had together gives a power to be boxed and used for rotation motion ( drill ) or signal power

Wow! Ain't that fascinating

Nobody has yet been able decrypt the inscriptions of Indus Valley Civilization. Somebody Should try that.

Omg genius and what luck of finding that stone.

amazing! I worked with a lady who could read Cuneiform.....impressive!

Could you change the title to . How we decode/activate the curses of ancient egypt. That would be more truth and transparancy for all . They deserve the heads up .

I’m Surprised More Rosetta Stones weren’t Found. There was 1 at Every major port down the Nile.

Im kinda obsessed with the concept of a universal language so I clicked. Thanks. U all made a great video. I think I find universal language BTW. Science is merely an agreement between 2 people articulating language.

What a brilliant subject! I've always been drawn to ancient Egypt as a young girl and as far back as I can remember. I've had such a curiosity as to how Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered and I even bought a book years ago - just stumbled on it... a coincidence... 🤔 I don't think so. Archeology is my passion, especially Egyptology. I'm Greek and the quest to discover Alexander the Great and Cleopatra is a burning flame... Both were from Macedonia and both disappeared in Egypt... Thanks so much Dr Norton 🤗

I recently bought a unique five panel bracelet with a gold and copperish tone looks alittle off to me but it has some weird maker stamps I haven’t been able to decode where shall I look for advice?

That was a great explanation. I’ve always wondered how the Rosetta Stone helped crack the code for hieroglyphics.

The Rosetta Stone confirms that the "P" in "Ptolemy" is, in fact, pronounced.

How about translations of obelisques: their purpose and attribution

One of the many beautiful African writing systems!!❤

a circle (nowadays it's a square with a dash) used to be the symbol for the sun in chinese too

5:38 positive ,negative ,power capture, signal , travel

Remember when I was little ,my teachers teaching me about this and I remember i could write some words of it , i wished it was a subject at the time , but sadly it was not and my teaching of it was gone but I do remember winning a writing competition at school doing it.and school trip to the British museum to see the most famous one.

Deciphering the Rosetta Stone followed almost exactly the deciphering of cuneiform based I think on Old Person from a multi language cliff inscription. Coptic should have almost made hieroglyphs obvious. Champollion's real genius was like someone solving someone else's crossword puzzle where the original solver got several of the words wrong.

"In the 9th century, an alchemist by the name of Abu Bakr ibn Wahshiyya managed to decipher about half of all Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. Considering the fact that there are a total of about 700-800 symbols to be cracked, this was an achievement that deserves recognition. Ibn Wahshiyya’s contribution was first brought to light in 2004 by the London-based Egyptologist Dr. Okasha El Daly, a professor at UCL’s Institute of Archeology. El Daly did extensive research on the study of ancient Egypt in medieval Arab-Islamic writing and convincingly argued that not only did Muslims express a deep interest in the study of ancient civilizations, but that they could also correctly decipher Egyptian hieroglyphic script. He hacked other cryptic alphabets as well - 93 of them, in fact, including alphabets used by the ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Semitic, Hellenistic, and Hindu civilizations. He published his findings in a text titled Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham, in which he gave a list of hieroglyphic symbols, their meaning (either as sounds or words) and their Arabic equivalent. El Daly compared Ibn Wahshiyya’s conclusions on hieroglyphics with Egyptologists’ modern-day understanding of them and found them to be accurate. El Daly emphasized that, because of their prejudices about Islam, Western scholars have been unfair to classical Muslim Egyptologists. “Western culture misinterprets Islam because we [in the West] think teaching [of civilizations] before the Qur’an is shunned, which isn’t the case,” he said. “They valued history and assumed Egypt was a land of science and wisdom and as such they wanted to learn their language to have access to such vast knowledge.”"

Love and appreciation of art is not in its private collection, private collector is 9nly suffering due to severe personality disorder related to possession. The more people see and understand it the better it is appreciated and Loved.

ive never seen a translation of a tablet or text from any tablet in text is there a place to see that ?

Where is Part 2? It's cut off. Cheers.

No doubt perfect channel in information congratulation

Have you taken into consider Wilson and Blackett's work?

Why was the understanding of Egyptian Heiroglyphs lost in the first place? How was it lost? Thanks

This about having a resultat and fit in the understanding Is very narrow sight

Europeans never been in Egypt? Read the Oera Linda book and prepare to have your mind blown.

I've got a series of videos on this same topic on my channel if anyone is interested to learn some other details, like what came out of Arabic efforts to translate Hieroglyphs, and how Champollion learned Coptic!

Good story nicely told. Not often anybody has reason to feel gratitude towards Napoleon.

Now do how the cuneiform were deciphered?