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The Rosetta Stone carries one decree in three scripts: hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek. Because the Greek could already be read, Jean-François Champollion had a bridge into the pictures. The stone is not a dictionary someone kindly wrote. It is the same announcement, repeated, and that repetition is what made the old script speak again.

The same text in a known language is what opened Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Rosetta Stone · The British Museum · Year unknown · Factapp