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The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895

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The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895
The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895
The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895
The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895
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20th December 1895

1776 (1894)

William Whetenhall

A policeman looking over the fence

A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard 20th December 1895The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205 180 BC) in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions. It was translated by Jean Francois Champollion between 1822 and 1824. Lantern slide.

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