For decades, the Rosetta Stone sat uncovered in the museum. Though they were discouraged from doing so, visitors would walk up and touch the stone, often tracing the writing with their fingers—a ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has ... The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies ...

and then in two forms of Ancient Egyptian - the everyday writing of the people known as Demotic, and the priestly hieroglyphics which had for centuries baffled Europeans. It was the Rosetta Stone ...