As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...

These were put up in major temple complexes across Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC, on the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V, by then a teenager. It's a decree issued by ...

The stone would have lain undiscovered if it hadn’t been for Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers digging foundations for a kind of fort extension in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rashid (Rosetta), a ...

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in Egypt's fabled Valley of the ... Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone, John Lloyd Stephens and the Mayan city of Copán.

Now, you can display the most-visited object in London's British Museum in your own home - the Rosetta Stone! This ancient stele holds the key to unlocking the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs ...

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For non-history buffs, the Rosetta Stone was an Ancient Egyptian artifact that had the same text in three scripts- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The Rosetta ...

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script. The earliest ...

These were put up in major temple complexes across Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC, on the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V, by then a teenager. It's a decree issued by ...