Which line from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone best illustrates the author’s purpose in printing excerpts from the decree inscr
ibed on the Rosetta Stone? It took more than a hundred years, and the efforts of many scholars, to translate all three passages New translations of the hieroglyphic text were made in France and Germany present-day experts hope that an even more complete copy of the hieroglyphic inscription may yet be found they give a sense of its content and the style in which it was written
