Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 2,600-year-old clay vessels — filled with ancient cheese. The discovery was made at ...

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in the Egyptian city of Rosetta (Rashid) in 1799 by French soldier Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt.

King George III gave the Rosetta Stone to the British Museum in 1802—and it’s ... Scholars were able to quickly translate the 54 lines of Greek and 32 lines of demotic inscribed on the stone.

Dubbed the Rosetta Stone after the town where it was found, the stela fragment features versions of the same decree in three scripts: hieroglyphs, Demotic (essentially a shorthand form of ...

The Rosetta Stone is inscribed with the same text in different scripts; Demotic, hieroglyphic and Greek. The stone is important as it played a vital role in scholars deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Rosetta Stone was about 4 feet tall and it had plenty of room for inscription. The top part had 14 lines written in hieroglyphics. The ancient Egyptians believed hieroglyphics was the written ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

That all changed in 1799 when a large stone was uncovered in Rosetta (now el-Rashid), a port city on the Nile river. The stone was inscribed in three languages — Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...