Rosetta Stone Research Paper

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The Rosetta stone is a Stone with writing on created way back in 196 BC
The Rosetta Stone weighed in to about 1,676 lb
The Rosetta Stone got it’s name from the city it was found
There were 3 languages on the Rosetta Stone classic Greek and 2 in Egyptian (hieroglyphic and Demotic)
The Rosetta Stone translates into how they would honour the Pharaoh and lists all good things that the Pharaohs have done for the Egyptians
Hieroglyphics were used for important documents, Normal Egyptian writing was demotic, and Greek writing was used only by the rulers
The Rosetta stone was found in 1799
The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers that were trying to rebuild a fort
It took 20 years to decode the whole Rosetta Stone
The Book of the Dead was