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The Rosetta Stone is a flat rock that was found in Egypt in somewhere between 200 B.C. and 100 B.C. that had one passage written in three different languages: Hieroglyphics, another Egyptian language, and classical Greek. That's where the Rosetta Stone language program gets it's name.
The Egyptian word for rock or stone is "bnr" in hieroglyphics.
The greek word for rock is petro.
The type of rock that contains lava or magma is an igneous rock.
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A Rosetta Stone is a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
The Rosetta Stone, which bears the bilingual inscription (in Greek and two forms of Egyptian) that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, is often said to be made of basalt. Recent study reveals it is actually made of granodiorite, a granite-like igneous rock.
In Greek, rock would be translated as "petra". Russian: kamen' Spanish: piedra French: Pierre German: Stein Portuguese: pedra Note: None of these rocks translate as the rock in Rock and Roll. They are all just hunks of stone.
Petrakis is a Greek surname that means "rock" or "stone." It is a common surname in Greece and is often associated with strength and resilience.
The parent rock of serpentine is called peridotite which is an ultramafic rock
sedimentary
metamorphic rock.