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Rosetta Stone   /roʊzˈɛtə stoʊn/   Listen
Rosetta Stone

noun
1.
A part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.





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"Rosetta Stone" Quotes from Famous Books



... is no easy task. Those of Central America are still an unsolved riddle. Those of Babylon have been slowly pieced together like a puzzle, a puzzle to which the learned world has given its most able thought. Yet they are not fully understood. In Egypt we have had the luck to stumble on a clew, the Rosetta Stone, which makes the ancient ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various


Words linked to "Rosetta Stone" :   stele, stela


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