Verkkoaccording to dolnick, the rosetta stone was not only, as its discoverers suspected, a key to egyptian hieroglyphs, and thereby to a huge swath. But what does the text on the stone say? Verkkounderstanding the lasting allure of the rosetta stone. An egyptologist explains the importance of the artifact Verkkorosetta stone is an ancient egyptian stone bearing inscriptions in several languages and scripts; Their decipherment led to the understanding of. Verkkoegyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the rosetta stone was deciphered. Verkkothe rosetta stone, an important clue in cracking egyptian hieroglyphs, is one of the most famous objects in the british museum, but what. Verkkothe rosetta stone is a fragment of a larger slab erected at an egyptian temple in 196 b. c. e. , during the reign of ptolemy v, a ptolemaic king of.