In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

The second script that Tarantino sold was Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone.

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its eventual decipherment, there had been no understanding of the Ancient Egyptian language and script since shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 provided critical missing information, gradually revealed by a succession of scholars, that eventually allowed Jean-François Champollion to determine the nature of this mysterious script.

The French Orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, who had been discussing this work with Åkerblad, received in 1801 from Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French minister of the interior, one of the early lithographic prints of the Rosetta Stone, and realised that the middle text was in this same script.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a tablet written in ancient Greek, Egyptian Demotic script, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, has partially been credited for the recent stir in the study of Ancient Egypt.

Lucas initially suggested making the film " a haunted mansion movie ", for which Romancing the Stone writer Diane Thomas wrote a script.

Stone asked him to reconsider and Lipper read the script responding with a 13-page critique.

Stone agreed with Lipper's criticism and asked him to rewrite the script.

Sheen remembered that Stone was always looking at the script and at his watch.

The most famous of these stelae is the Rosetta Stone, which allowed the deciphering of ancient Egyptian script in the 19th century.

Stone met with Warren Beatty but the actor wanted to make too many changes to the script.

Stone loved the script but felt that the third act and the ending needed more work.

The scene, known as the " Hun Brothers " scene, was described by Oliver Stone as the best scene in the script.

Oliver Stone developed a script called Monday Night written by Jamie Williams, a former tight end for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and later the San Francisco 49ers, and Richard Weiner, a sports journalist.

Stone separately acquired the spec script On Any Given Sunday, by John Logan.

The film began life as a script entitled I Call it Joy written for Thames Television by Brian Sibley and Norman Stone.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone stated the film as the summer-date-film supreme for pretty women and the gay men they love, despite criticism the script being falter.

Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to Oliver Stone on JFK and former subordinate of Lansdale's, claims to have told Stone not to include this in the script, believing Lansdale to be innocent of the allegations.

In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers rated the film 3½ out of a possible four stars and added, " Wayne Kramer, who co-wrote the scrappy script with Frank Hannah, makes a potent directing debut and strikes gold with the cast ... Top of the line is Baldwin, whose revelatory portrayal of an old Vegas hard-liner in thrall to the town's faded allure is the stuff Oscars are made of.

800 BCE Shizhoupian compendium, or inscriptions on both late W. Zhou bronze inscriptions and the Stone Drums of Qin, or all forms ( including oracle bone script ) predating small seal, the term is best avoided entirely.

The oldest remains of Malay using the Jawi script have been found on the Terengganu Inscription Stone, dated 702 H ( 1303 CE ), nearly 600 years after the date of the first recorded existence of Arabic script in the region.

Kneale delivered his script, initially titled Breakthrough and later renamed The Stone Tape, in September 1972.

He also served as a script editor on programmes such as Bedtime Stories ( 1974 ); The Stone Tape ( 1972 ); and No Exit ( 1972 ).

On his desk was a slowly accumulating treatment and script of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

They condemned the movie script writers for implying that sex was enjoyable and exhilarating.

Of this, only 50 cents a day was paid in cash, the rest in script usable only in `` People's Stores ''.

An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.

This script was not used after the destruction of Ugarit.

The Phoenician script was probably the first phonemic script and it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn.

The script was spread by the Phoenicians, across the Mediterranean.

In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the ancestor of all alphabets in the West.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

On the other hand, the Phagspa script of the Mongol Empire was based closely on the Tibetan abugida, but all vowel marks were written after the preceding consonant rather than as diacritic marks.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

The Syriac script was a cursive variation of Aramaic.

The phonetic structure of the Greek language created too many ambiguities when the vowels went unrepresented, so the script was modified.

After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, the unity of the Imperial Aramaic script was lost, diversifying into a number of descendant cursives.

Most original Cuyp paintings were signed by him, and in the script manner in which his name was inscribed.

Although Whorf's approach to understanding the Maya script is now known to have been misguided, his central claim that the script was phonetic and should be deciphered as such was vindicated by Yuri Knorozov's syllabic decipherment of Mayan writing in the 1950s.