But his reaction was also far from hyperbolic, considering the significance of the discovery in question ... “The first people to look at the Rosetta Stone thought it would take two weeks ...

Champollion’s discovery, and further works on hieroglyphics ... But the story of the Rosetta Stone doesn’t end there. Indeed, ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding the Rosetta Stone’s discovery and translation is more obscure.

The slab was the Rosetta Stone, and the letters and symbols carefully ... The French Egyptologist’s work was eventually validated by the discovery and translation of the Decree of Canopus ...

“Within two years after the discovery of the stone ... He manages to understand that,” Regulski explained. The Rosetta stone has been on display in The British Museum since 1802 with only ...

The chance discovery of the monument in the Nile Delta ... Almost a millennium before the Rosetta Stone was even discovered, Arabic scholars had begun to grapple with the hieroglyphs they found ...

It was an officer’s discovery of a mysterious stone that ... When the French were defeated by the British in 1801, the Rosetta Stone was seized, along with other antiquities, and now has pride ...

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 ...