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Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite slab inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BCE in the name of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy V, written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script and ancient Greek. French soldiers found it near Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile delta in 1799, and it passed to Britain under the capitulation of 1801. Its parallel texts enabled Jean-François Champollion to decipher hieroglyphs in 1822.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Rosetta Stone. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/rosetta-stone
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