Part of The World Around Us Ancient Egypt Year 3 Year 4 This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek.

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

the world's oldest known writing system. The research group discovered that the symbols on these cylinders acted as a medium of communication, used for documenting transactions and even conveying ...