Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images (stone); DivVector/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (desert) Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone ...

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it ...

Album/Art Media/Heritage Images Before the find could ... to studies of ancient Egyptian writing. Although Champollion owed much to the Rosetta Stone, his work with other texts, his peerless ...

The famous Rosetta Stone is a black granite ... But why did ancient scribes include three different kinds of writing, or scripts, on this iconic stone in the first place? The reason the stone ...

The "Rosetta Stone" — which was discovered in mid-July 1799 during construction of a fort by a French military expedition at the town of Rashid (ancient Rosetta) — contains text written in ...