The stone that spoke three tongues
Cracking the clay code of Babylon
Unraveling the mystery of Maya glyphs
Lost scripts we still cannot read
choko Decode the carved symbols to learn how one stone unlocked the world's forgotten languages.
choko Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion competed to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
choko An English polymath and a French linguistic genius raced to decode the mysterious hieroglyphs.
What did English polymath Thomas Young discover about the oval-shaped 'cartouches' in hieroglyphs?
choko The Rosetta Stone
Three scripts showing just one decree (yeah, that's it) / Unlocked all the secrets we couldn't read (oh-oh)
choko The British Museum acquired the famous stone through a treaty following military battles in Egypt.
Rosetta Stone dust: The Rosetta Stone was originally thought to be black basalt, but cleaning revealed it is actually dark grey granodiorite.
A key that provides a means of decoding a highly difficult problem or translating a mysterious language. French soldiers unearthed this granodiorite slab in 1799, enabling scholars to finally decode ancient Egyptian writing.