The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in View of the Goldsmiths' Hall

View of the Goldsmiths' Hall from Foster Lane with people in the street

1780 (1788)

Many acts of violence were taking place and both English and Irish politicians were seemingly unable to reach any agreement that would even begin to satisfy both sides

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The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:Large: 7 x 5in View of the Goldsmiths' HallThe Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205 180 BC) in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions. It was translated by Jean Francois Champollion between 1822 and 1824. Lantern slide.