See also:

• ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)

ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town situated at the western or " See also:

• ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)

Rosetta " mouth of the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• BANK

bank . It was called Bolbitine by the Greeks, but according to See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus the Bolbitine mouth was artificial, and it was evidently of little importance compared with the Canopic, Sebennytic and Pelusiac mouths . When the other branches and the See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal silted up, Rosetta prospered like its See also:

• SISTER

sister See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• DAMIETTA

Damietta on the eastern See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch; the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of the overland route to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India passed through it until Mehemet See also:

• ALI

Ali cut a new canal joining Alexandria to the Nile . Rosetta is now much decayed . Its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1907 was 16,81o, almost entirely Mussulman . A railway joins it to Alexandria . The celebrated Rosetta See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

Stone which supplied See also:

• CHAMPOLLION, JEAN FRANCOIS (1790–1832)

Champollion with the See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key for the decipherment of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient monuments of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt was found near Fort St See also:

• JULIEN, STANISLAS (1797?-1873)

Julien, 4 M . N. of the town, in 1799, by Boussard, a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French officer . It is a See also:

• BASALT

basalt See also:

• STELE

stele inscribed in hieroglyphic, See also:

• DEMOTIC (Gr. Srlµorucos, of or belonging to the people)

demotic and See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek with a See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree of the priests assembled at See also:

• MEMPHIS

Memphis in favour of See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy V . Epiphanes . It was ceded to the See also:

• ENGLISH

English at the See also:

• CAPITULATION (Lat. capitulum, a little head or division; capitulare, to treat upon terms)

capitulation of Alexandria (18or) and is now in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum . See EGYPT: II .

Ancient Egypt, See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section D . " See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

Writing." (F . LL .