Yes, we were able to determine the Egyptian symbols/words specifically used on the Rosetta Stone, as well as get the gist of the grammatical structure.
But how did/do we determine the meaning of all the other symbols/words/grammar not used on the Stone?
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Contextual clues and patient guesswork.
If they have a sentence like ‘the ___ was full that night and ___ brightly down.’, they could reasonably assume that the first missing word is ‘Moon’ and the second would be something like ‘shone’, based on clues in that sentence
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