Tallet realized that he was dealing with the oldest known papyri in the world ... You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone.

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Throughout Homo sapiens’ 200,000(ish)-year-old story on this planet ... Mesopotamia’s cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics, developed more than 5,000 years ago, but these were symbol-based ...