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The Rosetta Stone: Why We Care So Much About A 2,000-Year-Old Slab Of Rock

11 minutes | Sunday, November 19, 2023

It’s an intriguing slab of rock, but why was finding and decoding the Rosetta Stone so important to scholars? In short, it’s the key to unlocking the unique Egyptian language of illustrated text referred to as hieroglyphs. We speak with Edward Dolnick, author of The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone, about the monumental impact of this discovery.
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The Rosetta Stone: Why We Care So Much About A 2,000-Year-Old Slab Of Rock
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