Welcome to In Focus. In this series we take a closer look at particular sites, finds and objects from the world of Archaeology.

Today we examine the famous Rosetta Stone.

Tags:

• Archaeology
• excavation
• Rashid
• Rosetta
• London
• British Museum
• Hieroglyphs
• Hieroglyphics
• translation
• transliteration
• key
• Bouchard
• Champillion
• Akerblad
• Silverstre de Sacy
• Porson
• Heyne
• Thomas Young
• Demotic
• Ancient Greek
• language
• napoleon
• bonaparte
• campaign
• egypt
• egyptian
• culture
• grammar
• phonetic
• spelling
• priests
• ptolemy v
• ptolemy
• memphis decree

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