You no longer have to visit the British Museum in London to see the Rosetta Stone in detail.
Last week, the museum published the first 3D scan of the famous slab of hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone is one the most important artefacts from ancient civilization. Discovered in 1799 it became the key to understanding ancient Egypt. It features nearly identical texts in Demotic, ancient Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphics, and scholars compared the texts to unravel the hieroglyphic alphabet.
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