How the Rosetta Stone Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2013

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Sometimes providence smiles on historians. Thus is the case with the Rosetta stone, an ancient Egyptian tablet that served as the key for unlocking hieroglyphics, lost to time for a millennia. Learn about the international intrigue, rivalry to translate i

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