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Cracking the Rosetta code: How a black slab of stone unlocked a world to an ancient Egyptian civilization 

  • For centuries, ancient Egypt was shrouded in darkness until a discovery of a slab of stone that put Egyptologists to the test
  • The 3,000-year-old Rosetta Stone, engraved in three different languages, would prove to be the key to understanding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
By Jonathan Gornall ·