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Rosetta Stone

noun

1 Rosetta Stone

A part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Dutch: Steen van Rosette


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