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from an
overworked printer.
           To his great relief however, there was no data waiting for
him in the report tray when he settled into a chair by the desk.  He tapped his
finger on the desk, wondering what to do. Then it occurred to him that he
should initiate a search, starting with the very date he had targeted and
running in keywords that he was certain of… The Rosetta Stone!
           In the London he had just left, the Rosetta Stone was no more than an anonymous slab of
basalt, but he had seen the stone several times in his Meridian of Origin, in London , in the British Museum . Was it still there?
           He swiveled over to his computer, called up the search
engine, and nervously typed in: ROSETTA STONE. He paused an instant and hit
Enter. There were approximately 137,000 hits. He exhaled, noticing that he was
holding his breath, and began to review the data.
    Nathaniel
MULLIKEN / Rosetta STONE
Nathaniel MULLIKEN / Rosetta STONE . Husband: Nathaniel MULLIKEN.
Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Father: John MULLIKEN. Mother: Mary POOR.
Spouses: Rosetta STONE .
    Rosetta Stone - Melvin Stone ...  69121 individuals, 24883 families from file 20020823.ged ( 23 AUG 2002 ) Rosetta Stone (ABT
1799 - ____) Rosetta Stone ( 13 JUN 1811 - ____) Manasseh Stone (CHR 23 ...  
    Bun
Busters Series 07 - Starring Rosetta Stone , Rodney Moore, Tammi ...  Bun Busters Series 07. Company: VCR PRODUCTIONS. Length: 82 mins.
           This was not good. All he was getting
was genealogical data and junk references. He needed to refine his search a
bit, and decided to focus on one of the scholars who had done the key work in
deciphering the stone. He typed in: FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION and immediately received about 1500 hits. The man existed!
           He opened the first page, an
encyclopedia article:
     
    Champollion
was a French Egyptologist, who is acknowledged as the father of modern
Egyptology. He achieved many things during his short career that laid the
foundations for Egyptian archaeology.
           He
was born in 1790….
     
           Yes, yes, thought Nordhausen. Get to
the point. The man deciphered the hieroglyphics!
     
     …
While he was at the Lyceum, he presented a paper in which he argued that the
language of the Copts in contemporary Egypt was, in essence, the same as that used by the Egyptians of antiquity.
           His
education continued at the College de France, where he specialized in languages
of the Orient. He knew bits and pieces of many languages, and was fluent in
several others. A partial listing of the languages he was familiar with is
astounding: Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean, Chinese, Coptic, Ethiopic,
Sanskrit, Pahlevi, and Persian.
     
           But nothing whatsoever about the
hieroglyphics! Nordhausen swallowed hard. Of course… It made perfect sense now.
He had seen it with his own eyes. The stone was broken, and the entire body of
knowledge surrounding the ancient Egyptian writing was broken with it.  He
scanned the rest of the article, hoping to find some hint or clue that would
lead him to believe that things were all right, but there was nothing; nothing
about his greatest achievement: the reading of the stone.
           Then it occurred to him that this was
not the only source of information about the Egyptian writing. He scoured his memory,
trying to recall other instances of artifacts that had been inscribed with
multiple languages. “Bubastis!” he said aloud, remembering a relatively new
find there just a few years back. He immediately keyed in a new search and came
up with an article in short order dated April 19 th , 2004 .
     
    ‘ Potsdam - A team of German and Egyptian archaeologists working in the Nile Delta has
unearthed "quite a remarkable" stele dating back 2,200 years to
Ptolemaic Egypt which bears an identical inscription in three written
languages. The grey granite stone, 99cm high and 84cm wide, was found
"purely by accident" at the