A LITTLE over a mile from the pyramids of Giza, a new museum awaits the return of the Rosetta Stone.
When construction is completed, The Grand Egyptian Museum will house the most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities on Earth, including possibly, hopefully, the stela from the city of Rosetta in the Nile Delta.
The stela is a fragment of a larger tablet and is one of many stelae that were engraved with a decree written by priests in the 9th year of the reign of Ptolemy V and placed in temples across Egypt.
As one of many copies of Ptolemy’s decree, what makes the Rosetta Stone so special is that for thousands of years our understanding of the ancient world was based mainly on the Classical and Hellenistic periods in Greece and the Roman Republic.
Egyptian civilisation, while evident through artefacts and the built environment, were impenetrable as the writings and records were indecipherable to modern society.

Regarded as the language of the gods, hieroglyphs