2 mo. ago • 98%

TIL 28 different copies of the Rosetta Stone have been discovered

This video is really cool. It's a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.

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In German, rosetta is a slang for butthole and whenever I hear Rosetta Stone I imagine a kidney stone trapped in an anus.

My favorite pizzeria is also called rosetta and it grosses me out but I have accepted that them stamping every pizza with their butthole is justified if it makes that good of a pizza.

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- stamping every pizza with their butthole is justified
  
  You Germans and your kinky porn.
  
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- Nice
  
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- I think the pizza think comes from the type of butthole they have in the French city of Lyon:
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_de_Lyon
  
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  Interesting. Their la rosetta pizza has beef, arugula and parmesan as toppings btw.
  
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We can finally discover what happened during the void century

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- I'm gonna have to make a buster call.
  
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  yes zoro, thats the marine right there
  
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Do we know what they were called in their time (obvs not Rosetta)?

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- Rosetta Stone 3.4.5 ~ Language Learning [PC ~ Multi]
  
  /s of course
  
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- I don't think we do, but my guess was it would be something very simple like "Pharaoh Ptolemy's temple decree" since it was supposed to be in every temple of every size.
  
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- It may not have had one for all we know, it's named after the modern town is was discovered in
  
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Alrighty then...

Picture this, if you will

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I’ve seen this video before.

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- Cool, but do you realize this isn't your personal website where everything is posted specifically for you?
  
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  Don't you realize you're speaking to the main character?
  
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  What about me? Is it specifically for me? I'm super-entertained!
  
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- I've been watching the whole series. It's all amazing. It sucks that the British Museum has all of this stuff in the first place, but I'm glad they at least give curators a chance to tell the public about them in their own words.
  
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  Hot take; would humanity have as many if Europeans/British didn't excavate them and put them in their own museums? I'm thinking we'd still have some, right? How much longer would it have taken to decipher?
  
  That topic would make an interesting YouTube series.
  
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- 27 times?
  
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  Hey, try not to watch it again on your way through the parking lot!
  
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- Today you didn't learn
  
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- holy shit
  
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- 👍
  
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- wait was this a 'copy found of copy' joke?
  
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- The lion, the witch, etc.
  
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