Rosetta Stone
In our contemporary time, Rosetta Stone represents more than one entity. But its original use is for a broken stelae (a stone carving) found near the town of Rashid - Rosetta - in the Nile delta in Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte’s army in the late 18th century. The Rosetta Stone has 3 language inscriptions - Ancient Egyptian demotic, hieroglyphs and Greek, passing across the same message about the coronation of Ptolemy V Epiphanes in late 2nd century BC. The importance of the Rosetta Stone’s discovery is the hedge it lent to historians and archaeologists in deciphering old Egyptian texts - hieroglyphs, which were graphical forms and were not before understood or translated. The complete stone. The stelae was the first of its kind, after, more carvings - some centuries older - have been discovered and inscribed in the same format of 3 languages like the Decree of Canopus. As an App. Presently, as an idiomatic expression, Rosetta Stone has been used to describe a first breakthrough or a s
