As stone was written in old Hieroglyphics and new hieroglyphics no one knew what it said. Until they saw at the bottom of it, it was written in Greek as well, so then a French codebreaker who knew Greek cracked the meanings in hieroglyphics. And read the stone and found out what it meant.
It is made of Black Polished Basalt
On Rossetta Stone, you can learn it for a fair price.
Yes it was written by a group of priests
Rossetta stone or taking classes
It was found in 1799 by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt
They mostly used rossetta stone and limestone :)
Rossetta stone was used to build some of the pyramids.
The Rosetta stone
A Frenchmen named Jean-Francois Champollion
The Rosetta Stone is not a person, it is an ancient stone with three different scripts written on it in Egyptian and Greek. The scripts are hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. There is also a language teaching software called Rosetta Stone.
with Rossetta Stone! great program...
The rossetta stone was a letter anouncing the coronation of ptolemy the some thing. it was copied into greek as well as the two forms of Egyptian because the ptolemys were actually greek and not Egyptian.