Replica of the Rosetta Stone, displayed as the original used to be, available to touch, in what was the King's Library of the British Museum, now the Enlightenment Gallery

The Stone That Unlocked a Lost Language

For centuries, people could see Egyptian hieroglyphs but could not read them. The Rosetta Stone changed that because it carried three versions of the same decree on one slab.

Rosetta Stone and the Decoding of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Replica of the Demotic texts

One Message, Three Scripts

The top text used Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle used Demotic, and the bottom used Ancient Greek. Because the versions had only minor differences, scholars could compare them line by line.

Rosetta Stone and the Decoding of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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