Rutty@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 days agoEveryone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stonesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1179
arrow-up1179imageEveryone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stonesh.itjust.worksRutty@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 days agoI don’t get it And isn’t the Rosetta stone meant to have a bunch of writing on it? Somehow this makes me want to carve a QR code into a stone.
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up29·7 days agoI think it is the stone from the back. You can see more people on the other side of the stone and also with phones out to photograph it.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 days agoIndeed it is. I have seen (and I think photographed) it from the other side. But I am not sure if it is the original or just a copy on display.
minus-squaresudo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoThat’s the only way to see it when the front side is mobbed by hundreds of people.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoThose ancient civilizations should have accounted for this and put text on every side when they made it.
I don’t get it
And isn’t the Rosetta stone meant to have a bunch of writing on it?
Somehow this makes me want to carve a QR code into a stone.
I think it is the stone from the back. You can see more people on the other side of the stone and also with phones out to photograph it.
Indeed it is. I have seen (and I think photographed) it from the other side. But I am not sure if it is the original or just a copy on display.
That’s the only way to see it when the front side is mobbed by hundreds of people.
Those ancient civilizations should have accounted for this and put text on every side when they made it.