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Rosetta

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A town on the left branch of the delta of the Nile, 44 m. NE. of Alexandria, famous for the discovery near it by M. Boussard, in 1799, of the Rosetta stone with inscriptions in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, and by the help of which archæologists have been able to interpret the hieroglyphics of Egypt.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Rosetta'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/rosetta.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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