About Egypt Read and complete Date: …………… The Rosetta Stone is one of the most ………………………… objects in the British Museum The Stone is a ………………………… part of a …………………… stone slab It has a message ………………………… into it, …………………… in three types of writing (called scripts) It was an important ………………… that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs (a ……………………… system that used ……………………………… as signs) It sounds like something out of a spy’s handbook – a code-…………………………… stone tablet that unlocks ancient Egyptian secrets! But that’s exactly what the Rosetta Stone is The writing on the Stone is an …………………………… message, called a decree, about King Ptolemy the fifth (Ptolemy V) The decree was ………………………… on to stones, put in every ………………………… in Egypt It says that the priests of a temple in Memphis (in Egypt) supported the king The Rosetta Stone is one of these copies carved - famous –written - broken – temple - cracking - pictures – copied - writing - bigger – official - clue Find the following in the museum: …………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………… Date: ………………………………………………… Date: ……………………………………………… Write a caption to these pictures ………………………………… ……………………………………………………… ………………………………………… ……………………………………