The Rosetta Stone for Kids: How Hieroglyphs Were Decoded

The true story of the Rosetta Stone for kids: how French soldiers found it in Egypt in 1799, and how Jean-François Champollion used it to read Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822.

• Why the same message was carved in three different scripts
• How the stone ended up in the British Museum
• The race between Thomas Young and Champollion to crack the code
• Quiz questions to answer along the way

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