they can pretty much be any kind of facts, random, funny, interesting, boring (but not too boring). I've already tried wikipedia and wikianswers and google. plz. what if you were someone who needed help with this?!



The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts -hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. The Rosetta Stone is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt.


The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents and detail of hieroglyphic and demotic script on the Rosetta Stone.


The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt.


The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.


The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.





The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..


The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799.


The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt.


The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta -(Rashid).


It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town called Rosetta (Rashid).


The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt.


Many people worked on deciphering hieroglyphs over several hundred years. However, the structure of the script was very difficult to work out.


After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-Franois Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822.


Champollion could read both Greek and coptic.


He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs.


By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he could make educated guesses about what the other hieroglyphs stood for.




Well as far as I know, the Rosetta Stone was the discovery which helped archaeologists decipher the texts of the ancient Egyptians. So, I guess it was important in that it allowed us to translate previously unknown hieroglyphic writings. This has obviously been vital in understanding the ancient Egyptians culture




it was like a big black slab that had all the languages on it. now there's a bunch of really shitty language software named after it. It's just one of those things you learn but that you never need to know later in life ever.