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Rosetta Stone

By: Emily and Anthony

What is the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele, found in 1799.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Where is the Rosetta Stone today?

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break.

Here is a photo of the Rosetta Stone in a museum

Here is a photo of the Rosetta Stone in a museum

Why is the Rosetta stone important?

The Rosetta Stone is important because it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Why is the Rosetta stone important?

Hieroglyphs

A hieroglyph was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs".

Where did they find the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid).

Where did they find the Rosetta Stone?

Why it called the Rosetta Stone?

It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town called Rosetta (Rashid).

Bonus fact of the Rosetta Stone

What type of writing is on the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages ,Egyptian and Greek,using three scripts(hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek).

Here are pictures of the writing used on the Rosetta Stone

Here are pictures of the writing used on the Rosetta Stone

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