It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek ... The ancient Egyptians wrote the names of their gods and royal people in an oval shape ...

As History noted, Napoleon Bonaparte had instructed his soldiers to look out for Egyptian artifacts to bring back to France, so the stone’s potential ... spelled out royal names like Ptolemy.

ancient Egyptian inscription What's in a name? Well, in the case of Rameses ... colossal monuments in stone, pharaohs somehow loftier than kings ruling over a civilization that rivals in singular ...

“A list of forty names is arranged in columns on ... those were some of the sickies inscribed onto a 1250 BC Egyptian “ostracon” (broken-off stone) housed in the British Museum.