
Curiosity University The Rosetta Stone: What It Is and Why It Matters
Rosetta Stone, unlocking languages
May 12th 10:30 AM
About The Presentation:
Over 200 years after the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics by the French savant Jean-François Champollion, announced during his famous lecture in Paris in September 1822. The key, of course, was the Rosetta Stone: a bilingual Greek-Egyptian inscription discovered by
French archaeologists in 1799.