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Primary sources

• Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study.

Secondary sources

• Secondary sources are documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand accounts of that event, person, or topic.

Three types of primary sources

• What is written - drawings, photographs, paintings ect.
• What is said - audio recordings, films, videos ect.
• What is preserved - artifacts, temples, tombs ect.

Three producers of secondary sources

• Artists - create sculptures
• Cartographers - produce a detailed annotated map
• Filmmakers - create a biography of someone

How are secondary sources produced ?

• When secondary sources are produced by historians, they are constructed by primary sources and the work of other historians. These secondary sources recount events of the past.
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The Rosetta Stone

• The rosette stone was written in three different languages
• - Demotic, modern Egyptian
• - Hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian
• - Greek, ancient Greek
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The Rosetta Stone

• The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt.
• Was deciphered by Jean-François Champollion in 1822. Champollion translated the Greek first, then the Demotic. Only then could the hieroglyphs be translated

Interpreting and evaluating sources

• Both Primary and Secondary sources require thorough examination and evaluation. One important reason for this is that written material always reflects on the author's values and attitudes.