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| Ro·set·ta stone |
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stone with parallel texts: a stone tablet found in 1799 near Rashîd in Egypt that contained the same text repeated in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic script, and Greek. It supplied the key to deciphering hieroglyphics.
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