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It is a black basalt slab that provided scholars with their first key to ancient egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The rosetta stone british museum london the rosetta stone is a very famous historical artifact almost everyone has heard of it and most people know it has something to do with language. Today the stone part of a larger slab lies in room 4 at the british museum.
The rosetta stone which dates back to 196 bc was found near the egyptian village of el rashid or rosetta in 1799 by napoleon s army. The ancient slab which is engraved with three languages. A n egyptian museum has renewed calls for the rosetta stone to be returned back to egypt after more than 200 years in the british museum.
It was ceded to the british after the french capitulation in egypt and became the property of the british museum in london. The renowned rosetta stone which bears a decree of ptolemy v epiphanes in hieroglyphs demotic script and greek alphabetic characters was discovered during the expedition. The rosetta stone at the time was the first ancient egyptian bilingual text discovered and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic language.
The objectives included the rosetta stone which was shipped to england in 1802 and presented to the british museum. The stone is known for. One of the most famous objects in the world the rosetta stone is to have its little known gay history explored on public tours for the first time by the british museum.
Rosetta stone england museum. The rosetta stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in memphis egypt in 196 bc during the ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of king ptolemy v epiphanes the top and middle texts are in ancient egyptian using hieroglyphic and demotic scripts respectively while the bottom is in ancient greek the decree has only minor differences between the three versions. The rosetta stone has been on display in the british museum since 1802 with only one break.
The rosetta stone has been on display in the british museum since 1802 with only one break. The rosetta stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in memphis egypt in 196 bc during the ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of king ptolemy v epiphanes the top and middle texts are in ancient egyptian using hieroglyphic and demotic scripts respectively while the bottom is in ancient greek the decree has only minor differences between the three versions.