"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...

Tells the story of the Rosetta Stone, a stone found in Egypt in 1799 that proved to be the key to understanding the hieroglyphic script of the Ancient Egyptians.