The Rosetta Stone British Museum London c The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes Ptolemy V BC in three languages Greek Hieroglyphic and Demotic script Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions It was translated by JeanFrancois Champollion between and Lantern slide
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