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The Rosetta Stone is a stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued by Ptolemy V Epiphanes, a Ptolemaic king of Egypt, in 196 BC. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle text is in Demotic script, and the lower text is in Greek. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by French soldiers during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. It played a key role in the decipherment of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822.

Deciphering Cuneiform: The Rosetta Stone of the Ancient World

Deciphering the Rosetta Stone: A Milestone in Egyptology