The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm Hyde Park during a military

Hyde Park during a military review by Princess Alexandra

Mike Hawthorn with a model car

Motor Cycle Racing at oulton Park

Chauffeurs showing private parking spaces inside the main garage

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm Hyde Park during a militaryThe Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, c1890. The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (Ptolemy V) (205 180 BC) in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, the stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian inscriptions. It was translated by Jean Francois Champollion between 1822 and 1824. Lantern slide.