Rosetta Stone Water Bottle, 600ml/Silver

An aluminum water bottle featuring a design of the Rosetta Stone - a famous ancient Egyptian artefact in the British Museum. <br> <br> The stone is famous as it helped scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. By the time the granite stone was discovered in 1799, all knowledge of the ancient Egyptian scripts had been lost for over 1,000 years. <br> <br> Inspired by the Rosetta Stone, this water bottle features hieroglyphic writing and is ideal as a history gift. The bottle measures 17cm tall and has a 600ml capacity.

Exclusive to the British Museum, an aluminium water bottle featuring a design of the Rosetta Stone.

About the Rosetta Stone:

Soldiers in Napoleon’s army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, the Rosetta Stone was the key to unlocking the ability to read and translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Stone contains the same decree in three different scripts, and scholars were able to use the Greek and Egyptian Demotic sections to decipher the ancient hieroglyphs. The text contains a decree passed by priests in 196 BC to honour King Ptolemy V for his services to Egypt.

Ideal as a history-inspired gift.