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 ...

Abydos, in central Egypt, would have been ruled by an Egyptian king. But the name of the newfound tomb's owner is unknown.

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 ...