Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum in 1874

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

These works, which included the famed Rosetta Stone, were the first important group of large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum.

* The Rosetta Stone ( 196 BC )

File: Rosetta Stone. JPG | Room 4-The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes and the Rosetta Stone are among the most disputed objects in its collections, and organisations have been formed demanding the return of these artefacts to their native countries of Greece, Nigeria and Egypt respectively.

In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

* the Rosetta Stone

The early 19th-century editions of Encyclopædia Britannica included wikt: seminal # English | seminal research such as Thomas Young ( scientist ) | Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs | hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone ( pictured ).

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* 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

After Jean-François Champollion translated the Rosetta Stone, Charles X decreed that an Egyptian Antiquities department be created.

Short story in which archaeologists from Earth ( returning to the Mars of their distant ancestors ; see Genesis above, although the stories are not explicitly related save through the author's Paratime stories ), excavating the remains of a humanoid Martian civilization find an entire library they at first cannot read, but then come upon a Rosetta Stone of sorts, giving the story its title.

" String theorists find a Rosetta Stone.

Beginning with the famous decipherment and translation of the Rosetta Stone by Jean-François Champollion in 1822, a number of individuals attempted to decipher the writing systems of the Ancient Near East and Aegean.

File: Young Thomas Lawrence. jpg | Thomas Young ( 1773-1829 ): established the principle of interference of light, resurrected the century-old theory that light is a wave, helped decipher the Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

As the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, the Rosetta Stone aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this hitherto untranslated ancient language.

The Rosetta Stone, " basically a tax concession ," was statement of thanks to the Egyptian priesthood for help during the crisis.

The United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent commemorative stamp to honor Rosetta Tharpe on July 15, 1998.

* Rosetta Stone-claimed by Egypt

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

Such a spectrometer will also be used by the Philae lander of the Rosetta spacecraft to probe the surface of the 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.

On the other hand, the Dendera zodiac is, like the Rosetta stone, claimed by Egypt even though it was acquired in 1821, before the Egyptian Anti-export legislation of 1835.

* Project Mercury ( album ), a split album by Rosetta and Balboa

By 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker had begun using the term " rock and roll " in descriptions of upbeat recordings such as " Rock Me " by Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.

The Rosetta Stone was transferred to the sculpture gallery in 1834 shortly after Montagu House was demolished and replaced by the building that now houses the British Museum.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 provided critical missing information, gradually revealed by a succession of scholars, that eventually allowed Jean-François Champollion to determine the nature of this mysterious script.

On the basis of this and the foreign names on the Rosetta Stone, he quickly constructed an alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphic characters, which appears, printed from his hand-drawn chart, in his " Lettre à M. Dacier ", addressed at the end of 1822 to Bon-Joseph Dacier, secretary of the Paris Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and immediately published by the Académie.

A giant copy of the Rosetta Stone by Joseph Kosuth in Figeac, France, the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion

The technique of Doppler echocardiography has been called a Rosetta Stone for clinicians trying to understand the complex process by which the left ventricle of the human heart can be filled during various forms of diastolic dysfunction.

Rosetta Stone is a brand of language-learning software published by Rosetta Stone Ltd., headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, US.

" Rosetta " is an online language translation tool to help localisation of software, developed and maintained by Canonical as part of the Launchpad project.

No Enterprise-specific novels appeared at all in 2005 and the first post-cancellation novel, Rosetta by Dave Stern, did not appear until February 2006.

* 1799: Rosetta stone discovered by Napoleon's troops

* 1822 – Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.

* Stone of Canopus ( for Ptolemy III ), No. 1, in Rosetta Stone Series of 3 stones.

Other well-known examples are the Memphis Stele ( Memphis Stone ), bearing the Decree of Memphis, about 218 BC, passed by his son, Ptolemy IV, and the famous Rosetta Stone erected by Ptolemy Epiphanes, his grandson, in 196 BC.

In line with ancient Egyptian tradition, she was also named adelphe (= sister ) of Ptolemy V. A synod of priests held at Memphis in 185 BC transferred all honours that Ptolemy V had received in 196 BC ( written on the Rosetta stone ) to his wife.

The Greek text of the ( 196 BCE ) Rosetta Stone records that Ptolemy V reduced taxes on priests, including one paid in byssus cloth, usually translated as " fine linen cloth ".

In later Egyptian times, during the Ptolemaic dynasty, Ptolemy V, in his Rosetta Stone Decree of 196 BC, listed 22 accomplishments for being honored and the ten rewards granted to him for his accomplishments.

The last reward listed is his making of the Rosetta Stone, ( the Decree of Memphis ( Ptolemy V )), in three scripts, to be displayed to the public in the temples -( two near complete copies ).

The bilingual decrees for the Three-Stela Series are: Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, Ptolemy V, the Decree of Canopus ( also named the " Şân Stele "), the famous " Stele of Rosetta " ( Decree of Memphis ), the Rosetta Stone, ( grandfather, son and grandson ).

* Rosetta, Egypt, ( City of Rashid ), and Decree of Memphis ( Ptolemy V ), which is the Rosetta Stone, the Decrees in Series.

This is the earliest of the series of bilingual inscriptions of the " Rosetta Stone Series ", the next being the Decree of Memphis, for Ptolemy IV, and the third, final stone, being the Memphis Decree Rosetta Stone, inscribed for Ptolemy V, in 196 BCE.

* Rosetta Stone Decree-list of Ptolemy V accomplishments and rewards honored