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Rosetta Stone see under Rosetta .

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Rosetta Stone an inscribed stone found near Rosetta on the western mouth of the Nile in 1799. Its text, a decree commemorating the accession of Ptolemy V (reigned 205–180 bc), is written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek; the deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822 led to the interpretation of many other early records of Egyptian civilization. The Rosetta Stone is sometimes taken as the type of a mysterious cryptogram which, when decoded, will unlock other mysteries.

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A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Â© A Dictionary of the Bible 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Rosetta Stone Found by French soldiers at Rosetta on the west bank of the Nile in 1799 and surrendered to the British in 1801; it contains inscriptions in Egyptian and Greek written at the beginning of the 2nd cent. BCE, and the parallel Greek version made it possible to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. It is now in the British Museum in London.

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