Rosetta Stone

While working on the herculean scroll challenge, I came across various examples of early human writing. One of the most famous was the rosetta stone. I had always heard of it and was generally aware of it but actually knew almost nothing about it. I was probably more familiar with the language platform than the historical artifact.

The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V( on the first anniversary of his coronation (in 196 BC). You can read the full translation here.

The 3 languages depicted are Egyptian (simplified), Egypian (detailed), and Greek.

I found it interesting that the writing literally looks like a root ball or binary tree where the branches get more and more dense.

I thought it'd be fun to recreate this but representing the common neural networks CNN, RNN, and transformers.

Download the original rosetta stone model here