ROSETTA (Kapiti Coast) Multi-Cache

You will have to do the puzzle reading the notice board to get the co=ordinates before walking  along the seafront

Solve puzzle from central blue panel on notice board

South 40°5A.BCD east174°5E.FGH

• A=Green squares -1
• B=Horses
• C=Green squares +1
• D=Horses + dogs -1
• E=Green squares +2
• F=Brown squares-1
• G=Vehicles+boat+2
• H=dogs+vehicles-2

• The cache is a 200ml sistema container hidden waist high behind/under a discarded piece of concrete.

  

  ROSETTA STONE

  The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V.

  The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

  Although it is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at nearby Sais, the stone was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval 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 rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard, of the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt.

  As the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, the Rosetta Stone aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this hitherto untranslated ancient language.Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among European museums and scholars. Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria. Transported to London, it has been on public display at the British Museum since 1802. It is the most-visited object in the British Museum.