Then, the race to translate the Rosetta Stone began. Though the use of hieroglyphics ... the more informal Demotic script, and the administrative language of ancient Greek. Once scholars had ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was a most fortunate find. The stone’s three blocks of alternating script provided the key to deciphering ...

Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who can claim to have cracked the code to deciphering the Indus Valley script. The earliest ...

Five hundred years later, even this restricted knowledge of how to read and write them had disappeared - the script of Ancient Egypt was lost. The Rosetta Stone survived unread through two ...

For non-history buffs, the Rosetta Stone was an Ancient Egyptian artifact that had the same text in three scripts- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The Rosetta ...

The Rosetta Stone was produced in 196BCE but ... scholars were able to unravel the mystery of the ancient Egyptian script. The stone would have lain undiscovered if it hadn’t been for Napoleon ...

Five hundred years later, even this restricted knowledge of how to read and write them had disappeared - the script of Ancient Egypt was lost. The Rosetta Stone survived unread through two ...