Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is an extremely important piece of history.  Without it, we would have very little understanding of hieroglyphics.  This document contains writings in three different languages: Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphs.  It helped unlock the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs.  A man named Jean-Francois Champollion was the first man to completely break the code.  He spent most of his life studying the Rosetta Stone and working to unlock it's secrets.  In 1822, Champollion solved the code.  He was so surprised by his efforts that he fainted and was hospitalized for five days.  The decryption of the Rosetta Stone was one of the most important moments in history and it has revealed so many secrets about the ancient Egyptians.  Without cryptanalysis, this would have never happened.