What 40-inch piece of black basalt unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics?

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The Rosetta stone. Jan 17 03, 2:35 PM

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Rosetta Stone, black basalt slab bearing an inscription that was the key to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics and thus to the foundation of modern Egyptology. The Rosetta stone was found by French troops in 1799 near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in Lower Egypt. The stone was inscribed in 196 BC with a decree praising the Egyptian king Ptolemy V. Because the inscription appears in three scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek, scholars were able to decipher the hieroglyphic and demotic versions by comparing them with the Greek version. http://www.sunysuffolk.edu/~golds09/Assignment2.htm Jan 17 03, 2:37 PM

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A black basalt slab was found by a soldier in 1799 that contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic. Two decades later, French Egyptologist Jean Franýois Champollion was able to decipher the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide, and the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists as never before. What was the name of this artifact? What alphabets use mostly hieroglyphics? Is it true there are no ancient hieroglyphics inscribed inside of the Great Pyramid at Giza? What is specifically defined as 1/48th of an inch?

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