According to History, Young started to examine the Rosetta stone in 1814. He found that some of the hieroglyphics were contained in an oval, which he called cartouches, and that these spelled out ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... We asked the Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif for her view of this history: "This stone so makes me think of how often Egypt has been the theatre of other ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... We asked the Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif for her view of this history: "This stone so makes me think of how often Egypt has been the theatre of other ...