The Rosetta Stone When examining the Rosetta Stone, a French scholar found Ptolomy and Cleopatra's names written in Demotic, an
Egyptian language, and was able to match those names to the Greek writing on the Stone. In this flash of insight, it was discovered that the same information was written in three languages, Demotic, Greek and
Rosetta Stone is a block of black granite (often misidentified as "basalt"), measuring 118 cm high, 77 cm wide and 30 thick.
The stone block has strange minted glyphs separated into three distinct parts. Each part presents a kind of writing that was nothing like the other two. These three forms of writing, it turned out, were texts in the languages written in ancient Egyptian, Demotic, and Greek.
Freeform shapes can be closed or open, and have no defined name or qualities. Geometric shapes are close shapes, with a specific name and distinct qualities.
