The Rosetta stone is the code that revealed the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics allowing to the archeologist and to the scholars to read and interpreting inscriptions and reliefs like texts and tombs in a modern understanding. Thomas Young has shown first, then the French scholar Jean-François Champollion that provide the foundations of many information on the ancient Egyptian culture. Finally in 1799, soldiers of Napoleon’s army found the Rosetta stone near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). Later, the stone became British property after the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) and has been presented in the British Museum since 1802. Further more. The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stone inscription discovered in 1799. This inscription has three versions of an edict issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the name of King Ptolemaios V. The proclamation text at the top and middle of the inscription was written in Ancient Egyptian with hieroglyphic and demotic characters, while the lower part is written in Ancient Greek. Because the differences in the three versions of this edict were not many, the Rosetta Stone was the key to the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, which in turn broadened insights into ancient Egyptian history.
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