SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes providence smiles on historians. Thus is the case with the Rosetta stone, an ancient Egyptian tablet that served as the key for unlocking hieroglyphics, lost to time for a millennia. In this classic episode, learn about the international intrigue, rivalry to translate it and the luck that led to the founding of Egyptology.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey there everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen a 2013
0:36.6	episode, How the Rosetta Stone Works.
0:39.8	It's kind of amazing actually that had it not been for this one government decree that
0:44.7	happened to be written in a few different languages.
0:47.5	We may never have figured out what the heck hieroglyphics mean and they would have been lost
0:52.4	forever, including the culture that formed the basis of a significant portion of Western
0:57.7	civilization.
0:59.0	So check it out, How the Rosetta Stone Works.
1:02.2	Come and etch it right now.
1:06.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:16.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this
1:21.0	is Stuff You Should Know.
1:23.3	The Overly Hot Studio Edition.
1:26.3	I have a bit of a chill.
1:28.6	No you don't.
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