Museumize.com just received our shipment from the British Museum in London. Now back by popular demand are their Rosetta Stone Mousepad and Rosetta Stone Paperweight. Just like the ones they sell in their bookshop, they are now available in our store in the US.
The Rosetta Stone was written and chiseled in 196 BC to celebrate the coronation of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes, the child King of Egypt when he was 13 years old, establishing a cult in the temples in honor of the king's services. The original black basalt stone is 45 by 28 inches and weighs 1700 pounds. For almost 2,000 years the stone was relatively unknown.
The Rosetta Stone was put in the British Museum in 1802. Only twice in the past two hundred years has the Rosetta Stone been taken from the museum. Once during WWII, it was buried Underground and in 1972 it was loaned to the Louvre in Paris for a month. In 2003, Egypt demanded the Rosetta Stone be returned. To date that request has not been honored by the British.
The Rosetta Stone was written in 3 languages: Hieroglyphics, the script used for important religious documents, Demotic, the common script of Egypt and classical Greek, the language of the rulers of Egypt. A French scholar deciphered the text which required 14 years.
Rosetta Stone Mouse Pad, PN# 8141
Rosetta Stone Paperweight, PN# 8142
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