The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm the negative number: '39385'

the negative number: '39385'

Figure B is the Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros from Sumatra

corner of Wood Street and Gresham Street

Mike Hawthorn with a model car

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm the negative number: '39385'The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205 180 BC) in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions. It was translated by Jean Francois Champollion between 1822 and 1824. Lantern slide.