Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

At some point the stone was moved from the temple at Sais in the Nile Delta, where we think it was first erected, to el-Rashid, or the town of Rosetta as we now know it, about 40 miles away.

“Just as the Rosetta Stone described the same concept in hieroglyphics ... “Work that would take one day when done manually can now be done in a minute with iIACS — roughly 1,400 times ...