The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural ... and the third is in Ancient Greek. Through knowledge of the latter, academics were able to decipher the hieroglyphic ...

Once scholars had managed to translate the ancient Greek, they turned ... According to the British Museum, the institution acquired the Rosetta Stone in 1802, shortly after the British had won ...

The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural ... and the third is in Ancient Greek. Through knowledge of the latter, academics were able to decipher the hieroglyphic ...

It has been on display at the British Museum since 1802 ... scholars were able to use the Ancient Greek writing to crack the code of the Rosetta Stone, and finally, understand the language ...

The exhibition comes at a time the British Museum is under ... called Demotic and Ancient Greek, which provided the translation key. "We decided because the Rosetta Stone was such an important ...

The British Museum, the world’s oldest national ... lines), Demotic-Egyptian script (32 lines) and Ancient Greek (54 lines). The stone was found accidentally by soldiers in Napoleon’s army ...

Greece has asked the British Museum to return all of the frieze in its collection, about 250 feet of carved stone that once wrapped around the Parthenon, on a long-term basis. In return ...

Jonathan Brady/PA Images/Alamy I ’’The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western ... and the third is in Ancient Greek. Through knowledge of the latter, academics were ...

The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural ... and the third is in Ancient Greek. Through knowledge of the latter, academics were able to decipher the hieroglyphic ...