This English translation of the demotic portion {PDF} isn’t exactly a riveting read. Egypt wants it back. In 2003, the country requested the return of the Rosetta Stone to its original home ...

French soldiers, tasked with fortifying a small outpost, unearthed a large slab of black granite—what would later be known as the Rosetta Stone. Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard quickly recognised ...

Then, the race to translate the Rosetta Stone began. Though the use of hieroglyphics had died out after the fourth ... hieroglyphics used for official religious business, the more informal Demotic ...

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unidentified script (now known as demotic text). (How the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of ancient civilizations.) The ability to read and write hieroglyphs waned with the advent of the ...

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 ...

Rosetta, a city on the Mediterranean coast ... While hieroglyphs are characters for carving into stone, demotic is thought to have been created in ancient Egypt as a writing script.

What made the Rosetta Stone unique though was that the decree wasn’t just carved in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It had also been translated into two other languages. The first was Demotic ...