The Rosetta Stone, bearing ancient inscriptions, was discovered in 1799 in which country?
The Rosetta Stone is a rock stele, found in 1799, inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion is Demotic script, and the lowest is Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), the stone provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Playerelaine
Been to Egypt always thought it was found in greece
Nikki Proctor
It was found by a french soldier and the stone resides in the British Museum.
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Peter Robertson
Just inside the door of the British Museum!
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