196 BC
Rosetta Stone Decree
A priestly decree is carved in three scripts, later the key to hieroglyphs.
- Time period
- 196 BC
- Region
- Egypt
- Theme
- Culture
- Civilization
- Ptolemaic Egypt
In 196 BCE, priests at Memphis issued a decree honoring Ptolemy V. It was inscribed in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek. When rediscovered in 1799, it let Jean-François Champollion decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.