The message on the Rosetta Stone was likely written by a council of priests in the Egyptian city of Memphis, an ancient capital about 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) south of Cairo, according to ...

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it ...

One was written in classical Greek ... Almost a millennium before the Rosetta Stone was even discovered, Arabic scholars had begun to grapple with the hieroglyphs they found on Egyptian monuments ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was a most fortunate find. The stone’s three blocks of alternating script provided the key to deciphering ...

“The first people to look at the Rosetta Stone thought it would take two weeks to decipher,” says Dolnick, author of The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone. “It ended ...

Therefore, the statutes were written in three different languages on many stones and erected as stone monuments in various temples. It is believed that the Rosetta Stone is the stone monument that ...

The campaigners argue the Rosetta Stone, along with 16 other artifacts ... it also made it possible for tourists to have their names written in Hieroglyphics on bracelets when they visit Egypt ...

Like the Rosetta Stone, the Decree of Canopus is written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Ancient Greek and Demotic scripts. Reclaimed in 1866 by German savants in Tanis, the artefact dates back to 238 B.C.

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly ... about the society’s written language.

The famous Rosetta Stone is a black granite slab inscribed with three ancient ... But why did ancient scribes include three different kinds of writing, or scripts, on this iconic stone in the first ...