The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm Motor Cycle Racing at oulton

Motor Cycle Racing at oulton Park

Hyde Park during a military review by Princess Alexandra

about 1910 - 1911

A demonstration that an observer within the Milky Way galaxy 'will see all the stars in the direction of the planes of the stratum projected into a great circle

corner of Wood Street and Gresham Street

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Size:L: 80 x 60cm Motor Cycle Racing at oultonThe 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.