Rosetta Stone Shorts
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Description: This original design features the Rosetta Stone, a granodiorite stele created during the Ptolemaic dynasty. The stele is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC. The text is in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, and Ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone was the essential key to the modern understanding of ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation.
