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The 29 pages that link to Rosetta Stone, each with the reason it gives.

• Ptolemaic KingdomRelated: Its multilingual text records a later Ptolemaic king’s relationship with Egyptian priesthoods.

• PharaohRelated: Its text preserves a Ptolemaic ruler’s decree framed in Egyptian royal tradition.

• EgyptomaniaRelated: Its decipherment made Egyptian inscriptions newly accessible to European scholarship.

• Ancient Egyptian artRelated: Its inscriptions preserve a late phase of Egyptian temple relief and royal representation.

• WritingRelated: Its parallel inscriptions enabled the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

• Egyptian archaeologyRelated: Its decipherment made a large body of ancient Egyptian written evidence accessible to archaeology.

• Jean-François ChampollionRelated: This inscription became the central object of the decipherment that defined Champollion’s career.

• Ancient Egyptian literatureRelated: Its parallel inscriptions helped scholars read texts in Egyptian scripts.

• Egyptian languageRelated: Its parallel texts enabled the decipherment of Egyptian scripts.

• Athanasius KircherRelated: Its parallel texts supplied the evidence missing from Kircher’s attempts to read hieroglyphs.

• Demotic EgyptianRelated: Its parallel texts helped scholars decipher Demotic and hieroglyphs.

• James Henry BreastedRelated: Its decipherment made the textual evidence central to the field Breasted entered.

• Giovanni BelzoniRelated: The Stone supplied the trilingual evidence that gave context to the inscriptions collected in Belzoni’s era.