"The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British Museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages--in Greek using Greek letters, and...

"Describes the ancient Egyptian's hieroglyphic writing system, including types of glyphs, numbers, and Champollion's discovery of how to read hieroglyphs"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces heiroglyphs commonly found on tombs, statues, funerary objects, and amulets, explains their origins, and presents instructions for drawing them.