The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum in London is full of valuable ancient artifacts equaling thousands of millions of dollars. However there is one artifact in this museum that is worth more than all of the others. This artifact is a slab of basalt that is two foot wide and four and a half inches long. This artifact is known as the Rosetta Stone. On this artifact it includes fourteen lines at the top which include pictures, birds, and geometric shapes, which later became known as "hieroglyphics". These symbols were named by Greek scholars, meaning "sacred carvings". The next thirty two lines are written in a unfamiliar script. Then the last forty four lines are written in the letters of the Greek alphabet.
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