The Rosetta Stone and what it actually says with Ilona Regulski | Curator's Corner S7 Ep7 

Can you please give me the link to the British Museum’s policy on the return of antiquities to the Australian Aboriginal Nations ?

Ilona has no thoughts on working with items looted by British criminals? Hm,

What are this polarizing people commenting . Why are such people complaining about everything .

Oh my, the age we're living in! Where knowledge is abundant and free! I remember I've always wanted to learn hieroglyphs ever since I was at second-grade elementary school, and that was from a torn yellowed piece of paper (probably from a book) describing ancient AEgyptian's writing.

Oh yeah...... ;-p ;-)

☑️ Yeah, way back then they couldn't just go to Office Depot and buy reams of copy paper. So their ancient photocopiers used large, blank tablets of granite. They couldn't just plug them into electrical outlets either, so they were run by generators powered by water buffalo. Also, these 190BC era photocopiers could only copy 8 granite tablets per minute, but at least you could choose from 3 different fonts!

@@HighlanderNorth1 Well, if they allowed for font selection or substitution they had to be digital machines as opposed to analog. That's some impressive technology for the time. :)

@@HighlanderNorth1 HN1 ...............by chance , did you ever write for the Flintstones ????

@@dannycalley7777 You know, I didn't think of the Flintstones when I posted that, but that would be a fitting storyline for a modern remake of that cartoon. Back in the early 60s when it was produced, printer/photocopiers didn't exist. So you wouldn't have seen Wilma walk into Staples and load a ream of granite stelas into a copier.

@@HighlanderNorth1 The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....

I'm not a Greek native speaker, but I moved to Greece when I met my husband and I'm fluent in Greek and I was surprised about how many words on the stone I can actually understand even though I never studied ancient Greek.

@@BooksRebound probably the written language hasn’t changed that much. like one of the reasons old english and middle english seem so different to us is because spellings etc changed so dramatically - hwæt and what were pronounced the exact same but spelt waaaayyyy different for example

@@BooksRebound yes I'm not a native speaker and I don't know any ancient Greek, but when I look at ancient writings I understand a lot. The language didn't change as much as e.g. Latin that evolved into a variety of languages. The fact is that modern Greek has an enormous number of synonyms, because they often use ancient and modern words parallel. Also often in composed words you find ancient words. Like fire is φωτιά. But fire extinguisher is πυροσβεστήρας, containing the word πυρ which is the ancient word for fire. And that goes on a lot with modern Greek. It's really a very rich language which makes it extremely beautiful, but also hard to learn.

Very cool

Very cool. Wow.

Now we are throwing paint and oil on paintings because of I have no idea what they are fighting for.

"What does it say?" "It says they have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

Iv tried to see it up close several times but there are always crowds of pricks blocking it. Plenty of other things in the BM to look at though and brainless sheep dont know enough about them to form crowds around them.

@@problematic_canik If the security guards and museums were allowed to either punch or taser those asshats, those spoiled protestors wouldn't continue doing that.

The Stone is a faked artifacts anyway. The hardness of granite is high, its Mohs hardness is about 6, and cannot be carved on it without a specialized modern steel bit. The Egyptian did not even have iron at 189 BC. The Stone was machined/faked in the 19th Century to gain fame and profits.

I thought she was Nigerian

I'd say bizarre.

The Dutch-accented English not so much, because she sounds like a Belgian from the Flanders region.

Rosetta woman explaining Rosetta stone

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1. There are not a lot of bronzes unearthed in Egypt. The latest archeology proves that they were built by construction workers, not slaves. Slaves can eat high-quality beef and can be buried near the pyramids. 2. There is no history of bronze wares in Europe, only a very small amount of bronze is fished out of the water or bought from the antique market, so it is impossible to measure carbon 14 (compared with Sanxingdui in China to see what bronze wares can be measured by carbon 14) 3. There is no such thing in Europe Astronomical calendar (there are many observatory sites in China, there are no such sites in Europe, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years of continuous observation, calculation, and accumulation to have a calendar) 4. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, and China has unified weights and measures for more than 2,000 years. Many instruments related to measurement have been unearthed in China. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, so where does advanced arithmetic come from? History cannot be recorded until there has been no change for thousands of years. For the above points, can anyone overthrow it? If it cannot be overthrown, then ancient Babylon (someone obtained a cuneiform dictionary and translated clay tablets?), ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece are all false. Ancient Rome was a very small place not a great empire, let alone a civilization. If you look at the technology of the Song Dynasty in China and the Sanxingdui site, you will know the reason. Note that the first steam engine-driven car was also in China, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty, the creator of civilization, was stolen by barbarian Manchus and European missionaries, and rewritten the real history. 6. If Babylonian civilization is as great as described in textbooks, why is writing still written on clay tablets? Why not use noble sheepskin? 7. There is no such a grammatical dictionary for cuneiform, which can allow ordinary people to translate these clay tablets into modern characters. If there is no such dictionary, then they can make fakes at will. The ancient nautical chart of ancient Egypt is marked as Babylon, which is the map of China 600 years ago（it was codified by European missionaries to 1601）： www.loc.gov/item/2010585650/ This is a map of Europe：commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geographia_by_Ptolemy,_Aphricae_Tabula_III,_1540_Basel_edition_-_Maps_of_Africa_-_Robert_C._Williams_Paper_Museum_-_DSC00625.JPG

@@beamazed1162 Are you really asian? Your comment looks like more of a southern guy, you know, south of the mediteranean sea, with too much cousin breeding

Speaking of fascinating, your grandfather.

That is amazing, it would be a great movie script!

He was a tomb raider. Give back all the stolen war crimes trophies.

LOL@@toolbaggers he actually lost his job with the Rockefeller Foundation because he was attempting to enforce protocols to stop exactly that (and which at the time were new). In fact he studied Egyptology but never worked in Egypt that's your assumption which you leapt at at because never miss an opportunity for some grandstanding, eh?. He was on digs in Palestine and was fired because he tried to stop pilfering and looting and they said he was interfering with the work of others. He code cracked at Bletchley park, worked for British Intelligence and post war documented the horrors in the concentration camps. What a fun job that was but someone needed to do it. A principled and dedicated person. So FU mate with your lazy assumptions and virtue signalling. You're the sort of person who is never wrong and one reason to not expect much from social media. Full of smart Alecs who leap to conclusions and probably are just nobodies IRL.

Oh yeah he'd knocked back a job at the British Museum before the job at Palestine so he was a bit snookered, since nobody refuses to work at the BM. But he wanted to work in the field. making false assumptions @toolbaggers is disappointing but it's how you operate. And it's how social media operates too. I'm frankly disgusted.

1. There are not a lot of bronzes unearthed in Egypt. The latest archeology proves that they were built by construction workers, not slaves. Slaves can eat high-quality beef and can be buried near the pyramids. 2. There is no history of bronze wares in Europe, only a very small amount of bronze is fished out of the water or bought from the antique market, so it is impossible to measure carbon 14 (compared with Sanxingdui in China to see what bronze wares can be measured by carbon 14) 3. There is no such thing in Europe Astronomical calendar (there are many observatory sites in China, there are no such sites in Europe, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years of continuous observation, calculation, and accumulation to have a calendar) 4. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, and China has unified weights and measures for more than 2,000 years. Many instruments related to measurement have been unearthed in China. There is no unified weights and measures in Europe, so where does advanced arithmetic come from? History cannot be recorded until there has been no change for thousands of years. For the above points, can anyone overthrow it? If it cannot be overthrown, then ancient Babylon (someone obtained a cuneiform dictionary and translated clay tablets?), ancient Egypt, and ancient Greece are all false. Ancient Rome was a very small place not a great empire, let alone a civilization. If you look at the technology of the Song Dynasty in China and the Sanxingdui site, you will know the reason. Note that the first steam engine-driven car was also in China, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty, the creator of civilization, was stolen by barbarian Manchus and European missionaries, and rewritten the real history. 6. If Babylonian civilization is as great as described in textbooks, why is writing still written on clay tablets? Why not use noble sheepskin? 7. There is no such a grammatical dictionary for cuneiform, which can allow ordinary people to translate these clay tablets into modern characters. If there is no such dictionary, then they can make fakes at will. The ancient nautical chart of ancient Egypt is marked as Babylon, which is the map of China 600 years ago（it was codified by European missionaries to 1601）： www.loc.gov/item/2010585650/ This is a map of Europe：commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geographia_by_Ptolemy,_Aphricae_Tabula_III,_1540_Basel_edition_-_Maps_of_Africa_-_Robert_C._Williams_Paper_Museum_-_DSC00625.JPG

“Beamazed”, it sounds like you have some political or nationalist bone to pick with Ancient Rome, Egypt, and the European Bronze Age. But almost everything you wrote is demonstrably false. Ancient China was a great civilization. Pooing on Rome and Egypt doesn’t change that in any way, except to make people doubt the credibility of non-Western historians and archeologists in service of authoritarian states.

@@matthewriffel188 You give evidence and refute them one by one, or you shut up.

I love hearing curators talk about object they really love and appreciate, and know a lot about. It really shows.

@@Just_Sara Interesting exhibitionist.

I bet this lady is an incredible teacher. Clear and very knowledgeable.

I was going to say exactly the same thing.

A layman who hasn't dedicated his life to the subject walking up to a scholar who has spent her entire life studying this, and declares, "You are competent." Do you always feel the need to make overbearing, conceited, patriarchal comments when a woman speaks?

illuminating confirmed!

Illuminati more like.

You can say that agian...lol

Also, did not know there were many copies of the Rosetta Stone.

Same here. I was a schoolboy in the 1960's (France / England / USA / Italy / Spain). I always thought it was a 3-sided, bluntly pointed black stone, about 3 feet high. This video was a pleasant eye-opener. BTW, European schools have higher standards than US schools.

@@brahmburgers you describe a pyramidion - choke on that French School punk.

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She did not interpret the entire stone!

Not a secret!!!!!!

@@vincentanguoni8938 Did you know it? Before this video?

I did not know either, and I was saddened that the broken parts of the original stone still seem unknown, because you'd hope that additional versions would dispel any mysteries...

Question: Does RH refer to your blood type or is it just initials?

Maybe keeping a low profile in case Egyptians see this and decide to call for their return, for display in Egyptian museums.

The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....

@@D-E-S_8559 Nice theory you have here. Is it shared by specialists or is it just you who very cleverly came up with it?

@@klaasvanmanen8214 Where does one find this "specialists"...???

@@D-E-S_8559 Specialists are the ones who publish their discoveries and hypotheses in scientific literature, so that's where one has to look for them.

@@klaasvanmanen8214 And how does one get qualified to be a "specialist" ???

This was the best explanation I've come across of the Rosetta Stone and the associated Memphis decree.

i was un aware of any other copies being found as well, they do say you learn something new everyday

Same here. Interesting.

@@fallinginthed33p what a generic comment that is highly predictable and pathetic.

Don't worry the vayivan and London will lie to you via omission and obfuscation to your hearts content while proclaiming to tell the truth. Its what they do.

That's all ?!?

@@waxknucklebearingjuice5592 Yes, that's it.

He will like to read your shout out… and translate it.

What's all the shouting about

Yeah if you think the vatican didn't already have it transliterated and hidden away you have another thing coming. Nothing new under the sun kiddo.

Thanks for the suggestion, we'll try to set up another shoot with Ilona doing just that.

Yes please.

@@britishmuseum That would be lovely, thank you!

Yes it would be very interesting to see how things are being translated. Egyptian hieroglyphs can be read easily using old Welsh without the guesswork.

@@britishmuseum How about stating why The British Museum/The King and previously The Queen thought they owned it because they put in the effort to steal it? ONLY JOKING I KNOW YOU (WOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED) AND THEY WOULD NEVER TRY TO JUSTIFY THE THEFT! I MEAN WHAT COULD THEY EVEN SAY? Personally i want to do an expedition to recover the corpse of Queen Lizzy and put it on display in a museum in my country!

Welcome back!

Shall we repeat the comments we posted in the last upload, or had they already read?

@@wtfamiactuallyright1823 yes please

​@@Hashtagcris lol seems you should be more concerned about centring your attention on those who plan to strip away everything within, The British Museum. But based on the track record I've witnessed so far, many of you guys seem more intent on trying to give it away. You're supposed to be the guardians of such things, get your act together. This lady in the video was interesting tho, seemed to pass on useful details, far more than feels on how hard life was for the person who chiseled the stone.

you just didn’t like the comments that it’s wrong for you to keep it

Best is subjective. Just like and subscribe and keep it moving.

Lmao you "studied" it and don't know one of the most basic facts about it.

​@@DrPeculiar312don't be a prick about it.

@@REAL2222ful bro said he has been sutdying it for 27 years and doesn't know shit lmao. He is being pretentious

And it was basalt too

Did you have a chance to visit the tomb in Luxor?

That is super neat! Its great that they made such an impression on you to have remembered them all of these years. cheers!

You would also like: A Mayan pyramid, in good shape, about 80 ft tall. It's several miles west of the Belizian town of San Ignacia, near the Guatemalan border. There are several 2.5 meter tall stellae there with Mayan pictographs, just sticking out of the ground, fully accessible. Xunantunich. One of my favorite places. I've been there several times and each time, no one else is there. I stopped doing LSD 50 yrs ago, but... . . .

Totes! She did miss that whole thing about it curiously being on a whole different continent than it should. So weird.

I had the same experience when I came before the glorious stele of Ur. There it was, in the middle of the room, displayed with... An info card and nothing more!

BB...................was there at least a line ????

@@dannycalley7777 nope

​@@gailascari Average Egyptian people can't visit the so called "British Museum" (funny to name it as such since nothing in it is British 😅). Shame!! Return it to Egypt.

@@hus390 You do realise it was just used as building material by the Egyptians and left to crumble? The French/British saved it, and have kept it safe ever since. Worry about all the tombs still being raided regularly by Egyptian citizens, and the mummies and other "worthless" relics left to rot in the desert sands.

Cool. Your project sounds worthy of being put on display at your local gov't office or courthouse. Commendable. Plus, we're about the same age (me: 70).

Archeologists earn 62.000$ a year 🙄I wouldn’t praise them that much. Who wouldn’t like to do stuff like this? We should instead be glad of the million unqualified workers that do the hard work no one wants to do to pay taxes to finance excavations, discoveries and scientists.

I'm 70, and would also jump at an opportunity to attend a class by her. I wouldn't mind also taking her out for a glass of muscat grape juice (I don't drink wine).

Right? You'd think they would have already given back one or two out of mere shame by now.

I saw a copy of one just yesterday in Brussels.

@@javilorenzana what's to feel shameful for? The work of the British and French on the stone helped unlock the secret of hieroglyphics and, therefore unlocked the secrets of a forgotten culture. The stone was being used as building material in egypt when it was found. Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

@@javilorenzana England doesn't have more than 1.

contemporary copies? I didn't know that, either - honestly. I thought this was a local decree for Rosetta which other Egyptian cities didn't care about. I was wrong obviously. I'm aware of other universal decrees: Augustus' Res-Gestae, Darius' Behistun inscription (there exist Aramaic translations, also Herodotus probably had access to a Greek version given how close his biography of Darius matches the inscription). I just didn't know Rosetta was one of them.

Right? The fact there are other copies with more of the text never reached me.

Can you imagine how much would have been lost if the stone or the copies had been lost ? It’s unfathomable

Tremendously! Now if they only managed to figure out where the stones belong... It seems to elude them. Must be an imperial thing, seems obvious to me.

@@MikeGill87 Same, thought it was a one of.

@@javilorenzana What do you mean?

The convenience of the "Rossetta stone" is the key to diverting African History to eurocentrism and hellenic and latin domination, i's literally the start of white supremacy and racism....

16:37? The length of the video is only 16:34.