23096 a visit at the british museum

About Egypt
Read and complete.

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The Rosetta Stone is one of the most
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The Stone is a ………………………… part of a
……………………. stone slab. It has a message
…………………………. into it, …………………… in three types
of writing (called scripts). It was an important
…………………. that helped experts learn to read
Egyptian hieroglyphs (a ……………………….. system that
used ………………………………. as signs).
It sounds like something out of a spy’s handbook – a code-……………………………. stone
tablet that unlocks ancient Egyptian secrets! But that’s exactly what the Rosetta
Stone is.
The writing on the Stone is an ……………………………. message, called a decree,
about King Ptolemy the fifth (Ptolemy V). The decree was ………………………… on
to stones, put in every ………………………….. in Egypt. It says that the priests
of a temple in Memphis (in Egypt) supported the king. The Rosetta Stone is
one of these copies.

carved - famous –written - broken – temple - cracking - pictures –
copied - writing - bigger – official - clue

Find the following in the museum:

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Write a caption to these pictures.

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