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This quiz is designed to assess your knowledge about the use of classical languages in the modern world. Classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Arabic have a rich history and continue to be used in various fields today. Test your understanding of the significance and applications of these languages in contemporary society.

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.