British Museum Top 20 01-1 The Rosetta Stone

British Museum Top 20 00-2 The Great Court

British Museum Top 20 00-3 Great Court Lion Close Up

British Museum Top 20 01-1 The Rosetta Stone

British Museum Top 20 01-2 The Rosetta Stone Close Up

British Museum Top 20 02-1 Colossal Bust of Ramesses II and Pete

British Museum Top 20 01-1 The Rosetta Stone [4 of 30]

1. Rosetta Stone - Rosetta Egypt, 196BC, 114cm high. This granite stone was the key to deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. The writing is in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the English under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found.

British Museum Top 20 01-1 The Rosetta Stone 1. Rosetta Stone - Rosetta Egypt, 196BC, 114cm high. This granite stone was the key to deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. The writing is in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the English under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found.