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4 unusual facts about Rosetta Stone


Bubastite Portal

Jean-François Champollion visited Karnak in 1828, six years after his publication of the Rosetta Stone translation.

Dreadful Shadows

The new line-up made an appearance at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen, followed by the album Buried Again and a tour of Germany and Europe (including an appearance at the Sacrosanct festival in London with bands such as Rosetta Stone and Vendemmian in August 1996).

KV17

KV17 was damaged when Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone, removed a wall panel of 2.26 x 1.05 m in a corridor with mirror-image scenes during his 1828-29 expedition.

Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner

General Sir (Tomkyns) Hilgrove Turner GCH (1764–1843) is best known as the officer who escorted the Rosetta Stone from Egypt to England.


Phylogenetic profiling

Along with examination of conserved synteny, conserved operon structure, or "Rosetta Stone" domain fusions, comparing phylogenetic profiles is a designated a "post-homology" technique, in that the computation essential to method begins after it is determined which proteins are homologous to which.

Porl King

Porl King, born 19 October 1967 on the Wirral Peninsula in England, first achieved public acclaim and success as the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the goth band Rosetta Stone from their inception in the late 1980s through to their demise in 1998.


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Rosemarie and Dietrich Klemm Collection

The study showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan; the pink vein running across the upper part of the Rosetta Stone was also noted as typical of granodiorite from this region.