The Rosetta Stone was discovered in July, 1799, while some of Napoleon's troops were demolishing ancient structures to make way for a fort.

It contains 3 inscriptions, suspected to be a single text in 3 different scripts.

The first 2 are hieroglyphs and demotic.

The third inscription is in Greek.

The 14 lines of hieroglyphs are only partial, and correspond to the last 28 lines of Greek, which are also damaged.

The first 14 lines of demotic are damaged at the beginnings.

The last 26 lines of Greek are damaged at the ends

Hieroglyph

Demotic

Greek