The Rosetta Stone
THE ANSWER
"Rosetta Stone" — Photo by Hans Hillewaert / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
A broken rock that unlocked a lost world.
Discovered by accident, this slab of granodiorite acted as a linguistic key. It bridged the gap between a mysterious ancient script and a known language.
Explanation
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It was used by the British as a bargaining chip after they defeated the French in Egypt.
The 5 Clues
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“A fractured object that silenced a thousand years of mystery.”
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“It contains the same decree written in three distinct scripts.”
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“French soldiers found it while fortifying a town in the Nile Delta.”
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“Jean-François Champollion used it to decipher hieroglyphs.”
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“Now housed in the British Museum, it is a decree from Ptolemy V.”
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