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 ...

Every day I walk through the Egyptian sculpture gallery at the British Museum, and every day there are tour guides, speaking every imaginable language, addressing groups of visitors who are ...

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.