Excellent point, Jenny. I'm always amused that the Rosetta Stone was used as the key to deciphering hieroglyphs in Egypt. One supposes it is better than nothing but the Rosetta Stone is Ptolemaic, from the 3d century BC. Using it to decipher Old Kingdom hieroglyphs is a gap of well over 2,000 years. It is simply unthinkable that Egyptian did not evolve at all during such a span of time especially when you consider that it had its own Imperial Period and then was overrun by Asiatics, Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks in turn. There had to be loan words from each of those cultures if nothing else.
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