You’ve all seen, I regret excind. Hieroglyphics was used by the ancient Egyptians to write with. IT's based on pic to grams. However, for centuries, no one knew how to read it. Then in seventeen ninety nine, some French soldiers and napoleon, zara, me discovered there was at a stone in Egypt. It was part of a wall in an old ford in the town of rosetta. It was originally located in an ancient temple, but it was later moved to the ford. The rosetta stone had some writing on it. The writing was in three languages. One was ancient Greek, one was demotic. Uh, that s an ancient Egyptian language, and the other was hieroglyphics. All three languages contain the same information. It was a decree issued by some priest in one ninety six b c it was about the new pharaoh of egypt, but telling me the fifth, the priest declared that patella me had been chosen to rule, and they said that they would honor put on a me with a feast Each year. The text on the rosetta stone became the key to understanding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Scholars started to compare the three writings. They understood the ancient Greek very well. The second writing demonic was less well known, but some scholars came to understand it. Eventually, after much work, scholars started to decipher what the picture symbols and hieroglyphics meant. Two men were involved in most of the important translation work. The first was Thomas young, an English man. In eighteen fourteen, he made the first major discovery. He realized that the three tax contained the same information. He found about eighty words in the demonic and hieroglyphic text that were similar to words in ancient Greek.