The Rosetta Stone was found in Egypt in 1799. Inscribed upon it was the same text in hieroglyphs, another Egyptian form of writing called demotic, and Greek. Since Greek was well understood, the stone provided a key to deciphering the others. With all...

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by a member of Napoleon's Egyptian expeditionary force. The Stone is a stela fragment carved during the reign of Ptolemy V (205-180 B.C.) and is inscribed in two different languages with three different...

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text. The text is made up of three translations of a single passage,...

By accident of birth, this European-born newsman first became politically aware in the 1930s. One part of my family argued that democracy was moribund - the great depression had spread to Europe - and that Stalin and his "progressive" ideas would save mankind....

It took the brothers Dardenne, Luc and Jean-Pierre, a while - more than 40 years, in fact - before they discovered how to become national heroes in their native Belgium. All they had to do was go to last May's Cannes International Film...

Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone and a bust of Nefertiti.The country's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the Foreign Ministry would send letters this week to France, Germany,...

Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.Zahi Hawass rattled world museums last week with requests to hand over ancient Egyptian masterpieces, including the Rosetta...