Rosetta Stone Wooden Postcard

A wooden postcard in the shape of the iconic Rosetta Stone. <br> <br> The Rosetta Stone is one of very many famous objects that is housed within in the British Museum. The stone is famous as it helped scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, as the stone contains texts in three different scripts - hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. <br> <br> This postcard can be sent as 1st or 2nd class letter post.

Exclusive to the British Museum, a wooden postcard in the shape of the Rosetta Stone.

Made using FSC certified wood, this postcard can be sent using a 1^st or 2^nd class letter postage.

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.

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