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Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the letters and symbols chiseled into the face of the Rosetta Stone helped scholars crack the code of an ancient Egyptian writing system—and ...

All we knew about the ancient world was Greece, Rome and the Bible. We knew there were big civilizations, like Egypt, but they’d fallen silent. With the cracking of the Rosetta Stone ...

The artifact depicted three different ancient scripts. Found while Napoleon’s army was digging the foundations of a fort in Rosetta, now El-Rashid, Egypt, the stone provided the key to decoding ...

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers, while he was campaigning in Egypt, according to The British Museum. The stone was found built into an ancient wall near ...

Scholars had no idea what the various symbols signified and the ancient texts were a mystery. That all changed in 1799 when a large stone was uncovered in Rosetta (now el-Rashid), a port city on the ...

The campaigners argue the Rosetta Stone, along with 16 other artifacts ... The stone bears a short text in three different languages, ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs. If the three texts ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...

"The Rosetta stone was undeniably a spoil of war and an ... It was the fact that the same message was written in three languages – ancient Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphs – that made the ...