Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — The Rosetta Stone. [ARTICLE]

The Rosetta Stone.

The “Rosetta Stone,” a famous Egyptian curiosity now in the British Museum, was discovered in the year 1799 by M. Boussard, a French explorer, near Rosetta, a seaport of Lower Egypt. It is of black basalt, about forty inches long by thirty wide, with three engraved inscriptions upon its surface. The first of these is in Greek, the second is a conglomeration of hieroglyphics and the third is enchorial writing, a system used by the Egyptians in recording every-day matters. After years of laborious research the savants of Europe ascertained that the three inscriptions were three versions of a degree in honor of Ptolemy Epiphanes by the priests of Egypt, because he had remitted their t§xes. This wonderful relic dates back to about the year 200 B. C.—Philadelphia Press.