Then, the race to translate the Rosetta Stone began. Though the use of hieroglyphics ... According to The Irish Times, he figured out that the symbols fell into four categories.

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... A French scholar, Jean-François Champollion, then realised that not only the symbols for Ptolemy but all the hieroglyphs were both pictorial 'and ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs ... believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing ...