The Mystery of The Rosetta Stone

On Friday in Comm. Tech. we started learning how to view and write about a film. The film we watched and will review on Monday is "The Mystery of Rosetta Stone" (It is available to watch on youtube).

We watched this movie to learn more about the origins of writing that uses sounds to communicate and not simply pictures (pictographs).

The Rosetta Stone represents a major breakthrough in writing systems, and is the first development that we are studying in the history of communications technology.

Here is a photo of the Rosetta Stone:

And here is the work that Jean-Francois Champollion did in working out the sounds of the hieroglyphs: