Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so ...
Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004 ... Mesopotamia’s cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics, developed more than 5,000 years ago, but these were symbol-based languages.