The Cabinet media centre said the World Tourism Day (WTD) on September 27 coincides this year with the 200th anniversary of discovering and deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
In a statement on Thursday, the center said the stone dates back to 196 BC.
The stone is inscribed with a royal decree of Ptolemy V in three scripts, hieroglyphic, demotic and ancient Greek.
On September 27, 1822, French scholar Jean-François Champollion made a breakthrough in deciphering the stone’s hieroglyphics.
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