Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics ... the race to translate the Rosetta ...

It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation ... the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic code. Hieroglyphs could ...

For centuries, the Rosetta Stone has been revered as a monumental breakthrough due to its pivotal role in allowing archaeologists to translate ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and while that remains ...