Museum visitors examine the Rosetta Stone under glass. | Fox Photos/GettyImages. The Rosetta Stone is a beast. It is made out of a stone called granodiorite, a type of granite containing large ...

Two Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 ...

A woman observes the Rosetta Stone on display during the Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt exhibition at the British Museum in London on Oct. 11, 2022. Jonathan Brady/PA Images/Alamy I ...

The Rosetta Stone contained a decree written in three different types of writing. When it was discovered, no one new how to read hieroglyphics, but after many years, the code was cracked.

Related: Photos: Europe's Rosetta comet mission in pictures "Rosetta is one of the most ambitious and challenging missions, also from a human perspective," Claire Vallat, who was involved in ...

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...

Dan Kitwood / Getty Images Thousands of Egyptians are demanding the repatriation of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum back to its home country. The iconic artifact, which helped scientists ...