As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...

The Rosetta Stone’s text is a royal decree venerating ... one of the chief generals in Egypt who happened to be at the site. Soldiers excavated the stone and later presented to Napoleon.

It was in these volatile circumstances that Ptolemy V issued the Rosetta Stone, and others like it. The Stone is not unique; there are another 17 similar inscriptions quite like it, all in three ...

“Just as the Rosetta Stone described the same concept in hieroglyphics, demotic and ancient Greek, iIACS can be a Rosetta Stone for single-cell biology, covering microscopy, flow cytometry and ...