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  2. Rosetta Stone - Wikipedia

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    The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite ... The top and middle texts are in Ancient ... objects of international cultural significance such as the Rosetta Stone.

  3. Demotic (Egyptian) - Wikipedia

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    The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799. It is inscribed with a proclamation, written in three scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and the Greek alphabet. There are 32 lines of Demotic, which is the middle of the three scripts on the stone.

  4. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 by members of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt, bore a parallel text in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. It was hoped that the Egyptian text could be deciphered through its Greek translation, especially in combination with the evidence from the Coptic language, the last stage of the Egyptian language.

  5. Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone - AOL

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    This undated photo provided by the British Museum, shows the Rosetta Stone, the centerpiece of a new exhibition at London’s largest museum titled, "Hieroglyphs unlocking ancient Egypt ...

  6. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. The breakthrough in decipherment came only with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops in 1799 (during Napoleon's Egyptian invasion). As the stone presented a hieroglyphic and a demotic version of the same text in parallel with a Greek translation, plenty of material for falsifiable ...

  7. Pass It On: Rosetta Stone CEO says top leaders listen, learn

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    Five years ago, Rosetta Stone acquired Lexia Learning, which helps teach reading in K-12 schools. John Hass has worked at Goldman Sachs, a small startup and now as CEO of Rosetta Stone, the ...

  8. Rosetta Stone Makes Itself Smarter - AOL

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    Language learning software maker Rosetta Stone bought a little Seattle company called Livemocha on Tuesday. At just $8.5 million in value, this isn't the biggest acquisition in history -- but it ...

  9. Jean-Joseph Marcel - Wikipedia

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    During the French Campaign in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was discovered and transported to Cairo for examination by scholars. [1] Jean-Joseph Marcel, who was also a gifted linguist, is credited as the first person to recognise that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone, originally guessed to be Syriac, was in fact the Egyptian demotic script, rarely used for stone inscriptions and therefore ...