The Key That Unlocked the Ancient Stones

For nearly fourteen centuries, the hieroglyphics carved into Egypt's temples and tombs stood in magnificent silence. Scholars gazed at the intricate symbols — birds, eyes, serpents, human figures — and could only guess at their meaning. The truth was etched right there in stone, yet no living person could read it. Then in 1799, French soldiers unearthed the Rosetta Stone near the Nile Delta.…