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A crowd of visitors examining the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum in 2014, now behind glass. The Rosetta Stone was originally displayed at a slight angle from the horizontal, and rested within a metal cradle that was made for it, which involved shaving off very small portions of its sides to ensure that the cradle fitted securely. [50]
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Derived from descriptions from experts and similar illustrations appearing in books, with additional reference to an image of the Canopus Decree stele. Incorporates an image from Wikimedia Commons of the Rosetta Stone (File:Rosetta Stone BW.jpeg) and several images of Egyptian gods and goddesses from User:Jeff Dahl.
The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801.
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The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.
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 ...
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