The Rosetta Stone was found 1799 by french soldiers in the city Rosette (Rashid) in Egypt.
The stone was of great importance to translate and understand the hierglyphs since it's written in three different scripts:
- hieroglyphs,
- egyptian demotic and
- greek.
Collage of photographs from the Memphis' museum about 24 km south of Cairo. This is a small museum where one part of the museum is built around the fallen statue of Ramses II and the other part is open-air.