The Rosetta Stone

Rosetta stone is a stone made of irregular basalt stone. It was found in 196 BC and contains a text of thanks and appreciation to King Ptolemy the fifth of the priests gathered in the city of Memphis, the capital of Egypt at the time (present-day Giza)
the stone gives the key to modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

It was discovered in 1799 by a soldier of Napoleon's campaign against Egypt. near the city of (Rasheed) in the Nile Delta.
Its height is 113 cm and its width is 27 cm. Parts of it are lost from above and below.

The Rosetta Stone is currently preserved in the British Museum, which arrived in Britain in 1802 under an agreement between England and France, whereby England received the stone and some other monuments
The text was written in the official line, the old hierogephic at the top, and the dominant line of daily life , the demotic line in the central part, and finally the Greek line at the lower part , the line of the Ptolemaic language that occupied Egypt at that time. The finders suggested that the stone included one text in the three different lines and their opinion was correct This helped to discover the hieroglyphic language by the scientist Champillion

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