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The Rosetta Stone of 198 BC includes the 'km.t' three times and of 22 Kmi place names for ancient Egypt, 7 use the hieroglyph iAt- , signifying the soil of Egypt, N30: X1*Z2 - , which is the Greek form of "Egypt", signifying it as "the (divine) place of the mound (of creation)" and the fertile black soil of the land after the Inundation.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 March 2025. Egyptian stele with three versions of a 196 BC decree This article is about the stone itself. For its text, see Rosetta Stone decree. For other uses, see Rosetta Stone (disambiguation). Rosetta Stone The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum, London Material Granodiorite Size 1,123 ...
Rosetta (/ r oʊ ˈ z ɛ t ə / roh-ZET-ə) [a] or Rashid (Arabic: رشيد, romanized: Rašīd, IPA: [ɾɑˈʃiːd]; Coptic: ϯⲣⲁϣⲓⲧ, romanized: ti-Rashit) [b] is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km (40 mi) east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in 1799.
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Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [3] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [4] [5]
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.
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 ...
The famous Rosetta Stone, trilingual stela that unlocked the ancient Egyptian civilisation (196 BC) Giant sculpture of a scarab beetle (32–30 BC) Fragment of a basalt Egyptian-style statue of Ptolemy I Soter (305–283 BC) Mummy of Hornedjitef (inner coffin), Thebes (3rd century BC) Wall from a chapel of Queen Shanakdakhete, Meroë (c. 150 BC)