Rosetta Stone

This ancient stone holds the translation to hieroglyphic writing. It's a stone of black Basalt, 3ft 9in, long and 2ft. 41/2 in wide, broken from age. It was found in 1799 near Rosetta by Bouchard, a Frenchman. Today it has been housed in the British Museum after the French surrendered Egypt in 1801.

The inscriptions were written by the priests of Memphis, written in the ninth year of Ptolmy V. Epiphanies’ reign. It provides, in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, the translation of hieroglyphic writing.

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