Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

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 ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... word for 'stone slab' in Egyptian - 'ahaj', and then a fourth sign gives a picture showing the stone as it would originally have looked: a square slab ...

The inscription on the Rosetta Stone was one of several decrees passed by a council of priests that upheld the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... word for 'stone slab' in Egyptian - 'ahaj', and then a fourth sign gives a picture showing the stone as it would originally have looked: a square slab ...