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discovered in Rosetta by a French soldier in 1798.
[[Image:Rosetta stone.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.]]
[[Image:Rosetta stone.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.]]
The '''Rosetta stone''' was a stone which enabled the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It carried the same message in three different languages: [[Greek]], demotic [[Egyptian]], and [[hieroglyphics]]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ELJG-O9mG_wC&dq=Rosetta+stone&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=bQ0c6-e58q&sig=QVE1nMkEX5PqtfSJ0g0fsoNtmME&hl=en&ei=4mZBS44GgpmUB9ugpUg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
The '''Rosetta stone''' was a stone which enabled the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It carried the same message in three different languages: [[Greek]], demotic [[Egyptian]], and [[hieroglyphics]]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ELJG-O9mG_wC&dq=Rosetta+stone&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=bQ0c6-e58q&sig=QVE1nMkEX5PqtfSJ0g0fsoNtmME&hl=en&ei=4mZBS44GgpmUB9ugpUg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false] It was discovered in [[Rosetta]] by a French soldier in 1798.