The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Child: The ancient Egyptian civilisation and language died out nearly 1,500 years ago. So, how do we know so much about them? Teacher: The answer is right in front of you! Child: What do you mean?

The Stone helped scholars to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time. They looked at the inscriptions (writing) on the stone which are in Ancient Greek, already a known language.