The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, 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.

2022年9月27日 · The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a larger slab erected at an Egyptian temple in 196 B.C.E., during the reign of Ptolemy V, a Ptolemaic king of Macedonian Greek ancestry.

2015年4月1日 · The Rosetta Stone—a slab of granitoid featuring a written decree from 196 B.C.—is one of the most helpful tools scholars and historians have uncovered to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

2024年12月21日 · Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian stone bearing inscriptions in several languages and scripts; their decipherment led to the understanding of hieroglyphic writing. It was found in 1799 near the town of Rosetta (Rashid), about 35 miles northeast of Alexandria.

2017年7月14日 · The Rosetta Stone, an important clue in cracking Egyptian hieroglyphs, is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum, but what actually is it?

2014年1月3日 · The Rosetta Stone is an incomplete grey and pink granodiorite stela dating from 196 BCE which presents a priestly decree concerning King Ptolemy V of Egypt. The text is in three different versions: Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek, a fact which immeasurably helped to finally decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

2007年11月5日 · Egyptologist John Ray of Cambridge University, the author of a new book, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt, explains why. Today, many people regard the Rosetta stone as...

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs—a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts.

2024年12月22日 · The Rosetta Stone is more than just an ancient artifact; it is a vital key to unlocking the language of the Pharaohs. This remarkable stone carries inscriptions in three different scripts: Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphs, making it essential for deciphering the complex writing system of ancient Egypt.

2018年3月18日 · The Rosetta Stone is an enormous (114 x 72 x 28 centimeters [44 x 28 x 11 inches]) and broken hunk of dark granodiorite (not, as once believed, basalt), that nearly single-handedly opened up Ancient Egyptian culture to the modern world.