When it was discovered nobody knew how to read Ancient Egyptian. Because the inscriptions say the same thing in three different languages, the Rosetta Stone became a very valuable piece of evidence. Through the work of many people, it took over 2 months to uncover what the Rosetta Stone had to say. The Rosetta Stone is a piece of rock that was written on and was made to honor an Egyptian Pharaoh. The Rosetta stone today actually has many locations and some are relocated today, mainly because it make sit harder to be stolen. And because there is only one Rosetta stone other museums have papers and other documents that describe what the Rosetta Stone is about. Also, the documents discovered the Rosetta Stone on 15 July 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It had apparently been built into a very old wall. The officer in charge, Pierre-François Bouchard, realized the importance of the discovery.
The Rosetta Stone is a slab of written stone found on 15 July 1799 in Rosetta, in northern Egypt. It is an incomplete piece of black basalt stone that contains a statement made by king Ptolemy V in both Greek and Egyptian languages.
Its importance lies in the fact that it was the piece of information that allowed linguists to decipher the meaning of the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt, since being also written in Greek (a language known by these), it allowed to carry out a cross translation between these languages. Thus, for the first time the meaning of the hieroglyphs could be transcribed, which later facilitated the acquisition of information regarding ancient Egypt.
