Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stone carving inscribed in Ancient Egyptian and Greek languages.

Created in 196 BC, during the reign of Ptolemy V, the stone spoke of the pharaoh's gift of land to the temples.

Centuries later, in 1799, the stone was rediscovered by French soldiers in Rosetta along the Mediterranean Sea which enabled the scholar Jean-François Champollion to use its text to eventually decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Behind the scenes
The real Rosetta Stone currently resides at the British Museum in London, UK.