The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard William Whetenhall

William Whetenhall

To whom this Plate is most humbly Inscribed by his most obedient Servant

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The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Product:Postcard William WhetenhallThe Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205 180 BC) in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions. It was translated by Jean Francois Champollion between 1822 and 1824. Lantern slide.