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How two royal names in rings cracked hieroglyphs: Ptolemy, Cleopatra and the Rosetta Stone
In 1799 a slab was dug up near Rosetta carrying one decree in three scripts, and nobody could read two of them. The first foothold was tiny: royal names sealed…
History
4 min read
28 Oct