The House of Ptolemy:
Ptolemaic Egypt and its Culture
-- The Rosetta Stone

Ptolemaic Egypt and its Culture

The Rosetta Stone

• --- Photo of the Rosetta Stone (117kb)
  From The Rosetta Stone Pages by Andrew Oakley. This site will soon move to URL http://www.geocities.com/codyum/rosetta/main.html
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  British Museum's short description of the Rosetta Stone. Includes a small image of the stone. The page linked to it titled "What Does the Stone Say" gives more historical material.
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  Provides an Adobe PDF file of an English translation of the Greek section of the Rosetta Stone (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 to read it).
• --- Translation of Greek Text of the Rosetta Stone
  A translation of the stone's text into English.
• There's More To Learn About Rosetta Stone
  By Jasper Mortimer -- The Associated Press. From Canadian and International News, (10 Sep 1999).
• Egypt Wants Rosetta Stone But Does Not Expect To Get It
  By Jasper Mortimer -- The Associated Press. From Canadian and International News, (10 Sep 1999).
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  By Aurora Bishop. A short report describing the stone and its use in the decipherment of hieroglyphics by Jean-Francois Champollion.
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  A large low-quality image of the stone (pre-cleaning) with a few lines on its discovery.
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  A large low-quality image of the stone (pre-cleaning).
  From Ancient Egypt: The Eternal Voice, exhibit at the Frank H. McClung Museum, located on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
• --- The Rosetta Stone
  Short list of web references.

Bibliographic Notes:
Ptolemaic Egypt and its Culture
-- The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone

	--- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt by James Cross Giblin Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback Reprint edition (February 1993) Publisher: HarperTrophy; ISBN: 0064461378
	---The Rosetta Stone by E.A. Wallis Budge Paperback - 325 pages, reprint edition (October 1989) Publisher: Dover Publications; ISBN: 0486261638
	--- The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum: The Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic Texts of the Decree Inscribed on the Rosetta Stone by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge Hardcover (June 1973) Publisher: AMS Press; ISBN: 0404113621




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