Scribes and the Rosetta Stone

Description

Know that scribes were specially trained people who could read and write hieroglyphs, that the Rosetta Stone — a slab with the same text in three scripts — was the key to cracking the hieroglyphic code, and that Jean-François Champollion used it to decipher hieroglyphs in 1822 after centuries of mystery

Mastery Evidence

• ✓ Explain the importance of scribes as the only people who could read and write
• ✓ Describe the Rosetta Stone as having the same message in three different scripts
• ✓ Name Champollion as the person who decoded hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone