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Show The Kosetta Stone. The "Rosetta Stone," a famous Egyptian Egyp-tian curiosity now in tho British Mnso-, Mnso-, um, was discovered in the year 1799 by M. Boussard, a French explorer, near Rosetta, a seaport of lower Egypt. It is of black basalt, about forty inches long and thirty inches wide, with three engraved en-graved inscriptions upon its surface. The first of these is in Greek, the second a conglomeration of hieroglyphics, the third in enchorial writing, a system used by the Egyptians in recording every day matters. After years of laborious research re-search the savants of Europe ascertained ascertain-ed that the three inscriptions were three versions of a decree in honor of Ptolemy E-riphones by the priests of Egypt, bo-cause bo-cause he had remitted their taxes. This wonderful relic dates about two cent-nries cent-nries before the beginninnf cf the Chris-tiau Chris-tiau era. St Louis Republic. |