NOUN
- a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
How To Use Rosetta Stone In A Sentence
- Mr Fu wants to expand his business with the lofty ambition of competing with the industry leader, Rosetta Stone.
- It was a Rosetta stone that I would continually go back to when multiple issues from disparate groups clamored for priority.
- Echoing the pleas of the Greeks for the repatriation of the Elgin marbles, Egypt has appealed to the British Museum for the return of the Rosetta Stone.
- It did so fail in the case of the Rosetta Stone, whose wordings are versions in triplicate of a decree instituting a cult of the then - 196 BC - reigning Ptolemy.
- On a table in his office, Pandit keeps a replica of the Rosetta stone, the key that enabled archaeologists finally to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- She was the "eighth wonder of the world", "our Mona Lisa" and an evolutionary "Rosetta Stone", according to the researchers who unveiled her.
- Rosetta's name comes from the famous ‘Rosetta Stone’, from which Egyptian hieroglyphics were deciphered almost 200 years ago.
- The mission is named after the famous ‘Rosetta Stone’ - a slab of volcanic rock containing carved inscriptions written in hieroglyphics.
- This was a key, just as Egyptian hieroglyphics could be deciphered only when the bilingual Rosetta Stone was found.
- If two versions of the same song can be found, then the later manuscript can be used as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to help determine what the earlier neumes mean and how they can be interpreted.
