rosetta stone 1The Rosetta stone was found in 1799 by intelligence forces of the French army of Napoleon. The stone contains a text that was written in two languages in three different scripts. : in Egyptian with Egyptian hieroglyphs, in Egyptian with the demotic script and in Greek with the Greek alphabet. The text on the stone is a thanksgiving of the priests of Memphis to the king Ptolomaus V Epiphanes. It is estimated that the text was made on the 27th of March