Rosetta Stone Decree
Overview
A granodiorite stela carved in 196 BCE with a priestly decree honoring Ptolemy V in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek scripts. Found by French soldiers in 1799 at Rashid, it became the key that Jean-Francois Champollion used in 1822 to decipher hieroglyphs. The most visited object in the British Museum.
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