Rosetta, a town on the left branch of the delta of the Nile, 44 m. NE. of Alexandria, famous for the discovery near it by M. Boussard, in 1799, of the Rosetta stone with inscriptions in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, and by the help of which archæologists have been able to interpret the hieroglyphics of Egypt.
Population (circa 1900) given as 18,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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