The Rosetta Stone contains a decree written three times in Greek,
Demotic and hieroglyphic that provided the key to the mysterious
hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt, and opened up 3,000 years of
the country's history and culture. This book tells the fascinating
story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the
second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's
Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its
hieroglyphic text. Undertaken by two brilliant scholars - the
Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion, and the English physicist
Thomas Young - it was the former who eventually succeeded in making
the crucial breakthrough. Today the Rosetta Stone stands in the
Museum as an enduring symbol of human understanding and
communication through the ages.
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