Tentov and Boshevski pulled their translations from deep in their arses.
There is a great BBC series, 'Days that shook the world'. One of the episodes focuses on the discovery of the Stone and subsequent attempts by Champollian to decode the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Champollian was able to decipher the hieroglyphic text because the stone depicted the same decree in three different texts.
Champollian's translation has subsequently been used by scholars to successfully translate every other hieroglyphic text.
The translation SOM provided does not match the one provided by the Grk poster.
The mathematical probability of the Demotic script being successfully deciphered in one particular way and then being re-deciphered to to say something completely different, would probably be the same as me winning Powerball 300 weeks running.
I'm no linguist or Egyptologist, but just applying basic logic is enough to know that Tentov and Boshevski need urgent and intensive psychiatric treatment.
There is a great BBC series, 'Days that shook the world'. One of the episodes focuses on the discovery of the Stone and subsequent attempts by Champollian to decode the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Champollian was able to decipher the hieroglyphic text because the stone depicted the same decree in three different texts.
Champollian's translation has subsequently been used by scholars to successfully translate every other hieroglyphic text.
The translation SOM provided does not match the one provided by the Grk poster.
The mathematical probability of the Demotic script being successfully deciphered in one particular way and then being re-deciphered to to say something completely different, would probably be the same as me winning Powerball 300 weeks running.
I'm no linguist or Egyptologist, but just applying basic logic is enough to know that Tentov and Boshevski need urgent and intensive psychiatric treatment.
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