Rosetta Stone

:Rosetta Stone can also refer to Rosetta Stone, a language learning software produced by Fairfield Language Technologies

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Rosetta Stone - Fairfield Language Technologies

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The Rosetta Stone is a dark granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) which provided modern researchers with translations of ancient text in Egyptian demotic script, Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion, and in 1823 by Thomas Young. The discovery facilitated translation of other hieroglyphic texts.

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Granite - Basalt - Translations - Egyptian demotic - Greek - Egyptian hieroglyph - Deciphering - 1822 - Jean-François Champollion - 1823 - Thomas Young

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The stone has been kept in the British Museum since 1802. Its maximum dimensions are approximately 114 cm high, 72 cm wide, and 28 cm deep, and it weighs 762 kg.

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British Museum - 1802

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