The Stone That Spoke Three Ways
How the Rosetta Stone let people read Egyptian hieroglyphs again
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Wren: 32 min · Hollis: 35 min
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One message, three times
decree, stela, hieroglyphs, demotic
A lamp on the ground floor
ideogram, Rosetta Stone, parallel text, decipherment
A summer with a broken decree
cartouche, phonetic sign
The old voice next door
Coptic, determinative
Goodnight, quiet carver
the wind-down