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[edit] Suggestion
I think you are calling "transliteration" to the english phonetics for kleopatra, were kleopatra is a transliteration itself of the heroglyphs. Transliterate means pass from an alphabet to another... or maybe im wrong.
- You're quite right, both Champollion's version and the modern version are transliterations from the hieroglyphs. The article just happens to use the word "transliteration" in the second case, not in the first. I'm not sure if this requires rewriting. Andrew Dalby 18:38, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Requests for repatriation to Egypt
Please include in the article that during the recent Egyptian revolution the Egyptian Museum was sacked, mummies were thrown in the street, so the British Museum must never return this relic to Egypt, because of the lack of security. These precious objects must be preserved for the entire mankind in secure places. Anyway, the Rosetta Stone was made by another people, not the present inhabitants of Egypt.Mazarin07 (talk) 16:29, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
- The event that you describe, if it really happened, is evidently relevant to the article about the museum. So far as I can see from Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, it isn't yet clear that it happened: no doubt that will become clearer. It could be relevant in this article (a) if it happened and (b) if a noteworthy external source (an opinion piece in a newspaper, for example) links information about the event to the repatriation request. So you could try to find a source that does this. Andrew Dalby 21:22, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
[edit] animated tv show?
this character has a power called the rosetta stone. --Pabloviva22 (talk) 13:27, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
[edit] What a fantastic article!
I just wanted to thank the contributors to this page for making a well written and very informative article, sorry if this doesn't belong here :) 211.30.42.24 (talk) 08:03, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Error in main section of article
Somehow the Rosetta Stone (bold, first line in page) displays as "chinese food" on the actual page in my browser. Strange, because is the source it appears normal. Can someone with a bit more understanding of wikipedia source code look at this glitch? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.168.175.44 (talk) 22:47, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, what you describe was a an edit by a vandal which was up less than a minute before it was reverted by ClueBot at 20:50 UTC today. Please try refreshing your browser and you should see the latest version. -- Marek.69 talk 22:54, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
