The Rosetta Stone contained a decree written in three different types of writing. When it was discovered, no one new how to read hieroglyphics, but after many years, the code was cracked.

Wanted: Audiovisual Rosetta Stone. Must decrypt possibly significant movements and sounds from a lost — and therefore avant-garde — culture. Rush to: The Audience, Education of the Girlchild, ADF ...

Looty’s latest target, the Rosetta Stone, is a 3-ft.-8-inch fragment on which the same text is inscribed in three different scripts, including hieroglyphs.