The Rosetta Stone might not be much to look at ... It has helped scholars to understand the Ancient Egyptian writing system of hieroglyphs. Listen to the programme to hear the director of the ...

By the time of the Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, hieroglyphs were no longer in general use, they were used and understood only by the priests in the temples. Five hundred years later, even this ...

Despite its incomplete state, the Rosetta Stone crucially preserves the three languages from the original stele: hieroglyphs, the sacred script of the empire; Egyptian demotic, the common language ...

By the time of the Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, hieroglyphs were no longer in general use, they were used and understood only by the priests in the temples. Five hundred years later, even this ...

“Just as the Rosetta Stone described the same concept in hieroglyphics, demotic and ancient Greek, iIACS can be a Rosetta Stone for single-cell biology, covering microscopy, flow cytometry and ...

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 helped translate structures such as the Chapel of Khety. Source: supplied:The Australian Centre for Egyptology “That is how scholars realised that hieroglyphs were actually ...