Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics ... still read ancient Greek, which ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest ... so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic code. Hieroglyphs could be written vertically, horizontally, left to right, or right ...

For centuries, the Rosetta Stone has been revered as a monumental breakthrough due to its pivotal role in allowing archaeologists to translate ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and while that remains ...