Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic ...

Dr Gamal says the stone is essentially an ancient “photocopy”, mass-produced for temples by canny Egyptian priests keen to keep their Greek rulers happy. The Rosetta Stone is neither aesthetic ...

Not only does the decree allow the priests to ... What matters about the Rosetta stone is not what it says but that it says it three times and in three different languages. In Classical Greek ...