the real Rosetta Stone

      Now that it is the name of a well-known business concern, it seems that the real Rosetta Stone has been forgotten. Yes, there was a real Rosetta Stone--the people who run the well-known business ought to be able to tell you that. When Europeans began to study ancient Egypt, no one could read the hieroglyphics--the ancient Egyptian writing. The Rosetta Stone had the same message written in three languages. Two of them were ancient Egyptian languages, which no one could read. The message was also written in ancient Greek, which many people could read. This made it possible to decipher not only the message on the Rosetta Stone, but eventually all of the other ancient Egyptian writing.