What The Text on the Rosetta Stone Said (in Today's Language)

[@richardneuman365]

Absolutely love this channel, the connection between modern language and history just absorb me. Thank you so much.

[@TheLegendaryLore]

I'm happy you're enjoying the videos, brother!

[@f.douglassgoreiii7861]

Ah, a press release...

[@kellysong2256]

I'm new to your channel, and I am quite enjoying it 👏👏

[@TheLegendaryLore]

I'm happy to hear that, brother!

[@kellysong2256]

@@TheLegendaryLore Well, sister, actually 😁

[@TheLegendaryLore]

@@kellysong2256 Sorry, sister 🙏 I should have looked closer at your profile name!

[@xG_MANx]

I can never get enough of your videos!👍👍

[@TheLegendaryLore]

Wow, thanks for that huge compliment, brother!

[@xG_MANx]

@@TheLegendaryLore Your welcome brother! What you are doing is very educational and enlightening for all.👍

[@abeabebb]

You’ve continued to impress! Bring it to modern language unlike any others! Please keep it up

[@TheLegendaryLore]

Thank you so much, brother! We will :-)

[@applin121]

So it sounds as though there was more than one of these stela erected by the far sighted Egyptians. Even as a fragment it’s still an impressive artefact. The text is actually pretty mundane really, no great revelations of ancient knowledge but a priceless insight into that long dead world. Good choice 👍🏻

[@TheLegendaryLore]

I'm sure you're right. A similar stone was found later on, although in hieroglyphs only. And I remember reading that the same inscription was found on a temple wall.

[@jerrylyns7331]

Look up the link between debt and religion as described by Michael Hudson, how it relates to Yeshua under Roman occupation as Judaea fell into debt enslavement, how it relates to United States dollar hegemony today. This IS great knowledge

[@jerrylyns7331]

This text would not be considered mundane at the time, it was legitimizing Ptolemy. He enacted a debt jubilee to save the populations from debt enslavement. This was common practice for millennia across ancient civilizations, only with Rome and Greece do we see this practice end and the unlanded masses fall into debt servitude. We are in debt servitude still today. But instead of any debt jubilees for the people, we bail out banks and do austerity

[@allangibson8494]

There were dozens of them (in multiple languages). Three other exact copies of the Rosetta Stone itself are known (but the Rosetta Stone itself the one in best condition).

[@michaelzumpano7318]

You are such a perfect narrator that, for a minute, I thought it was AI. That was excellent!

[@LCTesla]

The introductory parts about "embarking on an adventure together" are classic AI script tells. Don't know about the voice.

[@Filip_Wessman]

So the reason we have this stone is they made many of them and we got lucky to find one? Wow.

[@GhoodVibez]

Thank you this was incredibly informative

[@TheLegendaryLore]

I'm happy you enjoyed it!

[@badass452a]

I'm in love with your channel! Have you done, or are thinking of doing The Odyssey (attributed to Homer)? Rather epic (pun intended), but perhaps, do a section of it? I've tried to read it several times, but the language just trips me up too much.

[@TheLegendaryLore]

Thank you for your kind words :) Oh yeah, The Odyssey is a tough one to read. We sort of have it on the list, but since it's so very, very long it would be quite the undertaking. We might make a somewhat shorter version that still contains all the important parts, but I'm not yet sure if that's the right approach.

[@au574]

Yeah Ptolemy! That's Right!

[@wendysalter]

Interesting self-promotion by the young king - little did he know this monolithic monologue would be world famous for more than it's content. Is it true the stone was found in a wall, after the wall had collapsed? I like the transcript's rendition of his name - 'King Tommy the Eternal'!

[@TheLegendaryLore]

King Tommy 😂 I don't know much about the details of the discovery, but it sounds plausible. It was found by French soldiers digging through rocks and rubbles, which might well have been the remains of a collapsed wall.

[@BerryMcCockiner]

King Ptolemy*. Im assuming it was just a joke that went over my head though lol

[@TheLegendaryLore]

@@BerryMcCockiner It's just KZbin's automatic caption that's slightly inaccurate 😄

[@BerryMcCockiner]

@@TheLegendaryLore oh of course, right?😂

[@wendysalter]

@@BerryMcCockiner Yes, but in the transcript, which is auto-translated by sound, it reads 'King Tommy, which, as an English person, I thought was funny as 'Tommy' is a nick-name for the English

[@thomasucc]

Excellent someone has told me what it says

[@paulgdlmx]

I don't quite understand how a Greek king was descended from an Egyptian god.

[@nordoflobsquipple3121]

It's a translation from any of 3 languages that all existed long before English. It is not UPDATING, it's TRANSLATING.

[@StamfordBridge]

1. All three languages on the stone are extinct. The video presents the text in a contemporary language. That is “updating” in a sense. That said, “updating” is not the word used in the video. 2. The video says, “We’ve translated [it does use that term] and modernized this tale.” I suspect by that wording that they’ve adjusted the phrasing to make it more readily understandable to modern ears.

[@nordoflobsquipple3121]

@@StamfordBridge Fair enough

[@nsbd90now]

Whew! Talk about a cult of personality!

[@WildMen4444]

Hail to the Theoi Epiphaneis! Hail to the Divine Ptolemy V Ephiphanes and Cleopatra I Thea Epiphanes!

[@IanMcFerran]

Is anyone else tired of the constant use of A.I., text-to-speech and asking people to like, share & subscribe? BRING BACK HUMANS! BRING BACK THE NON-GREEDY!

[@chrais78]

Christopher?

[@jp2135744]

wish you didnt use an IA voice

[@discobolous]

Awesome.

[@rkoff5744]

So politics hasn't changed that much...

[@andresmaynez3060]

How about you made a video of that time an aztec noble told the story of a japanese samurai dueling and killing a spanish knight? Edit: you could also tell the story of the spanish conquest of Mexico or Peru from the natives viewpoint

[@TheLegendaryLore]

I have not head of said duel between a samurai and a Spaniard but will certainly look into it! Thanks for the suggestion. Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote some fascinating letters on his experiences in the Americans and the treatment of the natives, which are also on the list. But I'll also look into any texts by the natives themselves.

[@adrianokury]

Ah, Tommy, a rather unremarkable king, whose significance seems inflated merely due to the happenstance preservation of an artifact not inherently tied to his reign. Much like Tutankhamen, whose fame largely stems from the excellent preservation of his tomb rather than his own achievements.

[@WildMen4444]

Ptolemy*

[@infoscholar5221]

Sounds like a standard Trump "speech," about himself. Frighteningly, in fact.

[@larson0014]

Ptolemy V, a greek, protrayed as a son of a god, what junk propaganda is this...

[@TheLegendaryLore]

All the more reason for this level of propaganda 😄

[@stephanieann9770]

What about Jesus lol 😂😂😂

[@WildMen4444]

Why couldn't a Greek be divine?

[@YoYo-gt5iq]

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