Lyrics by Rosetta Stone

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  1. The Witch
  2. Adrenaline
  3. A Hole (I Need To Hide In)
  4. An Eye For The Main Chance
  5. Chapter And Verse
  6. Children Of The Poor
  7. Cimmerian
  8. Come Hell Or High Water
  9. Darkside
  10. Deeper
  11. Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time Up There
  12. Forevermore
  13. Friend And Executioners
  14. Goods Gone
  15. Heart And Soul
  16. Helter Skelter
  17. Hiding In Waiting
  18. If Paradise is Half As Nice
  19. Interference
  20. Keeping Secrets Telling Lies
  21. Leave Me For Dead
  22. Never
  23. Nothing
  24. One Angel Short Of Heaven
  25. Reason
  26. Right As Rain
  27. Sense Of Purpose
  28. Shadow
  29. Sheila
  30. Side Effect
  31. Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
  32. Something Strange
  33. Spoiler
  34. Subterfuge
  35. Temptation
  36. Tomorrow For Us
  37. When The Levee Breaks
  38. Whispers

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree has only minor differences across the three versions, making the Rosetta Stone key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts. The stone was carved during the Hellenistic period and is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at Sais. It was probably moved in late antiquity or during the Mamluk period, and was eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was found there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script. Lithographic copies and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French, they took the stone to London under the terms of the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. Since 1802, it has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously and it is the most visited object there. Study of the decree was already underway when the first complete translation of the Greek text was published in 1803. Jean-François Champollion announced the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts in Paris in 1822; it took longer still before scholars were able to read Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently. Major advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text (1799); that the Demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the Demotic (1814); and that phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words (1822–1824). Three other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including three slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees: the Decree of Alexandria in 243 BC, the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, c. 218 BC. Though the Rosetta Stone is known to be no longer unique, it was the essential key to the modern understanding of ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation. The term "Rosetta Stone" is now used to refer to the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.

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