- What Does the Rosetta Stone Say?
Information on the text written on stone by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html
- Text of the Rosetta Stone
Offers an English translation of the decree imprinted on the famous stone in 196 BCE.
pw1.netcom.com/~qkstart/rosetta.html
- Decipherment of Hieroglyphs, The
Article from the BBC about Thomas Young's and Jean-François Champollion's work with the Rosetta Stone.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/decipherment_01.shtml
- Champollion, Jean François (1790-1832)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Egyptologists/Champollion__Jean_Francois__1790_1832_
- Story of the Rosetta Stone, "Finding a Lost Language"
Chapter from "Ancient Peoples: A Hypertext View," draft by Richard A. Strachan and Kathleen A. Roetzel.
emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/egypt/hieroglyphics/rosettastone.html
- British Museum: The Text of the Rosetta Stone
Translation of the text on the Rosetta Stone by R.S. Simpson.
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/r/the_rosetta_stone_...
- British Museum: The Rosetta Stone
History and information about the Rosetta Stone, one of the most popular exhibits in the British Museum.
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosett...
- Wikipedia: Rosetta Stone
History of the Rosetta Stone, the stone slab that allowed archaeologists the means to decipher hieroglyphic and demotic texts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
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