The Rosetta Stone’s text is a royal decree venerating a teenage ... the sacred script of the empire; Egyptian demotic, the common language; and Greek, which was the official language under ...

And when you read that text, it's pretty ... the people known as Demotic, and the priestly hieroglyphics which had for centuries baffled Europeans. It was the Rosetta Stone that changed all ...

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone ... the more informal Demotic script, and the administrative language ...