Rosetta stone

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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. [1]