1. Rosetta Stone
Carved in 196 BC, the Rosetta stone bore a decree praising the Egyptian king Ptolemy V etched in hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian and Greek. ... The stone was submitted to the Commission of Arts and Sciences who copied the texts and made casts of the stone which was very fortunate because two years later, after the defeat of the French army, the British took the stone and sent it to the British Museum, where it is still on display today. ... Deciphering the Stone Discrepancies According to The British Museum and most other published British sources, the deciphering of the stone was mainly the w...
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