Rosetta Stone
the name given to the Nile by a French engineer in 1798. a stone found near the Rosetta mouth of It is a tablet of basalt, with an ins tion of the year 196 B.
C., during the reign of Ptolemy Epiphanes. The inscription and formed the key to the reading of the Greek. It was deciphered by Dr. Young, Greek. It was deciphered is in hieroglyphic, in demotic, and in hieroglyphic characters. It was captured by the English on the defeat of the French forces in Egypt, and is now kept in the British Museum. ered by Dr. Young, Indian wood, imported in logs, 9 to 14