Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egyptian Writing
(World News Egypt)

The `Rosetta Stone` - which was discovered in mid-July 1799 during construction of a fort by a French military expedition at the town of Rashid - contains text written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic and ancient Greek. Because ancient Greek had been deciphered at the time of the Rosetta Stone`s discovery, scientists were eventually able to decipher the other two unknown scripts, which contained the same text. ......