Daily 1- Week 3

What is the oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to you? Why/how does it matter?


The oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to me is the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone matters to me for numerous different reasons. Throughout the world, people use hundreds of different languages. Not many people pay attention to this, but how did we get all these different languages, and most of all, how did we come to understand each other? The Rosetta Stone shows this exact relationship. The Rosetta Stone has 3 different languages on it, and one of them is Hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics are a series of symbols that represent sounds, certain people, landmarks, animals, etc. But, only people in ancient Egyptian times could understand these until a few hundred years ago a man discovered the Hieroglyphic language. It truly amazes me how we can go from speaking hundreds of different languages, to understanding the main language that was used by one civilization thousands of years ago. That is why the Rosetta Stone is the oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to me.