The Rosetta Stone was discovered and deciphered before Joseph Smith was born, but apparently God didn't tell him that, thereby forcing Smith to make it all up

by steve benson
RfM
March 8, 2013

"Discovery of the Stone

"The Stone was discovered in mid-July 1799, but the circumstances are unclear. Some say it was found just lying on the ground. Others claim that it was part of an old wall which was ordered demolished by French soldiers in order to extend Fort Julien. This claim is supported by the Institute's Egyptian map which indicates the fort being on the west bank of the Nile in the area of Rosetta.

"The Stone was discovered by Captain (or Lieutenant, sources differ) of Engineers, Pierre François Xavier Bouchard, who headed the demolition team. Scholars immediately recognized that this stone contained the key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian language. This was because it appeared that the Stone's message was repeated in the three scripts, and because Greek could be read, over time it might be used to decipher the other two. General Jacques-François Menou, military governor of Rosetta, quickly arranged to have the Greek characters translated in order to determine the nature of the text.

"The discovery of the Stone was not made public until September 1799, in an article printed in the 'Courrier de l'Egypte.' It was shipped to Cairo in mid-August, and became an object of study at the Institute. Jean-Joseph Marcel and Remi Raige were able to identify the unknown cursive script, Demotic, but they were unable to read it.

"Copies of the scripts were made by the lithographers Marcel and A. Galland, who covered the Stone's surface with printer's ink and lay sheets of paper over it and used rollers to obtain an impression. Several sheets were sent to scholars throughout Europe, and two copies were presented to citizen Du Theil of the Institute Nationale de Paris by General Charles-François-Joseph Dugua (former Commandant of Cairo) on his return from Egypt.

"A French translation of the text was made by Du Theil, revealing that the Stone 'was a monument to the gratitude of some priests of Alexandria, or some neighboring place, towards Ptolemy Epiphanes.'

"A Latin translation was made in 1801, and English in 1802.


"Deciphering the Stone

"In 1802, a French Orientalist, A.I. Sylvestre de Sacy began to decipher the Demotic text. Equivalents for proper names found in the Greek section were identified in Demotic. Working at the same time, the Swedish diplomat, J.D. Åkerblad recognized the words: 'temples,' and 'Greeks.'

"Later in 1814 the Englishman Thomas Young discovered that Demonic words were not always alphabetically written, and closely compared the Hieroglyphic and Demonic scripts. He made many advances, identifying 86 signs. He studied the repetition of Greek words and looked for the same number of repeated signs in the Demonic script. In this way he identified the words 'and' as well as 'king,' 'Ptolemy,' and 'Egypt.' He was hampered by the missing parts of the Stone and the fact that the Greek and Demonic sections were not literal translations of one another.
He later identified the word 'Ptolemy' in Hieroglyphics and in 1816, he determined that some hieroglyphs were not only word symbols, but at least in some cases were phonetic values.

"The French scholar Jean François Champollion, working at the same time, reached similar conclusions. Each worked with the Stone scripts and with other script discoveries, such as an Hieroglyphic inscription found at Karnak and a bilingual inscription on an obelisk discovered at Philae in 1815 to advance understanding of the ancient Egyptian language.

"In September 1822, Champollion presented his 'Lettre À M. Dacier Relative À l'Alphabet Des Hieroglyphes Phonéntiques,' which deciphered the hieroglyph forms for many of the Roman Emperors of Egypt. Young was unable to make further progress but Champollion continued making great strides. He classified many hieroglyphs, formulating a system of grammar and general decipherment. He was greatly aided by his use of Coptic, a language of the Christian descendants of the Egyptians. He is now looked upon as the "Father of the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs."

("The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone." by Max Sewell, under "Research Studies--Miscellaneous: The Napoleon Series," at: http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/miscellaneous/c_rosetta.html)

"Later in 1814 the Englishman Thomas Young discovered that Demonic words were not always alphabetically written..."

Freudian slip?

(Demonic/Demotic)

:)

Proto-Elamite has flummoxed scholars...when will the world wise up? Just make an appointment with the prophet, he'll translate it in no time whatsoever with Joseph's peepstone.

The manuscript is obviously in written in an Adamic dialect and concerns advice Adam gave to his children on the dangers of masturbation, pre-marital sex, and associating with the less righteous. Seth's Boner.

...and bare shoulders. Don't forget bare shoulders.
:)

"The nineteenth century was the height of Egyptomania..."

Add that to the widespread belief at the time that the native people of the New World must be the Lost Tribes, and that they had buried treasure all over the place.

And add all that to the religious mania of the Second Great Awakening.

Obviously y'all are not profits...he's outta the loins of ham and was a great general though gawd didn't like him much cuz he still had a arrow in his ribs...big feller about 6'7 and 280 ...and raised pigs for a living when tithing dried up...his dad was Omar who was a direct descendant of kush...yup that kush...loosely translated with a big shot of chiasmus