The Stone is a broken part of a bigger stone slab. It has a message carved into it, written in three types of writing (called scripts). It was an important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs (a writing system that used pictures as signs).

Napoleon Bonaparte campaigned in Egypt from 1798 to 1801, with the intention of dominating the East Mediterranean and threatening the British hold on India. Although accounts of the Stone’s discovery in July 1799 are now rather vague, the story most generally accepted is that it was found by accident by soldiers in Napoleon’s army. They discovered the Rosetta Stone on 15 July 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It had apparently been built into a very old wall. The officer in charge, Pierre-François Bouchard (1771–1822), realised the importance of the discovery. On Napoleon’s defeat, the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found. The stone was shipped to England and arrived in Portsmouth in February 1802. The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C and was found in 1799. The Museum of Archeology at the Library of Alexandria presented a model of the Rosetta Stone, which located in the British Museum in London, in order to introduce the visitors of the museum to this important monument, which is one of the most important Egyptian monuments on which the Egyptian flag originated. It is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the world through the ages that important key to the discovery of the symbols of the ancient Egyptian language.so come and discover this important monument with Magic life tours.