ROSETTA STONE


Meaning of ROSETTA STONE in English

a large, flat, black stone which was discovered in Egypt in 1799 and is now in the British Museum , London. The same text is written on it three times in three different types of writing, including hieroglyphics (= Egyptian writing). This enabled the French language expert Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) to read hieroglyphics for the first time.

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.