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Stone of Rosetta Geocoin Rosetta Polyglot

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Owner:
Milar Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Origin:
Czechia
Recently Spotted:
In Benchmark 941 3745 TIDAL 4

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Current Goal

Being a symbol of knowledge of languages I want to visit as many differently speaking locations as possible.
Please POST PHOTOS of places, where I've been and PUT ME ONLY IN WELL HIDDEN AND FREQUENTLY VISITED CACHES as I don't want to be stolen or lie somewhere for months.

About This Item

Rosetta Stone Geocoin

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.
(source: wikipedia.org)

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Tracking History (10109.2mi) View Map

Dropped Off 5/10/2012 Rakning-napalm placed it in Benchmark 941 3745 TIDAL 4 California - 5,359.1 miles  Visit Log

Lämnad i Benchmark 941 3745 TIDAL 4 (GCPD9N)

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 3/24/2012 Rakning-napalm grabbed it   Visit Log

Hanging on to it for a while, going to America.

Dropped Off 2/26/2012 andreasma placed it in LGE #11: Ljungby TB- and GC-hotel + SWAG place Kronoberg, Sweden - 103 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/19/2012 andreasma retrieved it from Barneberga kyrka Västra Götaland, Sweden   Visit Log

Cool GC. Will be placed in a new geocache soon. Thanks for the story about the Rosetta stone. Interesting stuff 😁

Dropped Off 2/12/2012 connyivar placed it in Barneberga kyrka Västra Götaland, Sweden - 6.13 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2012 connyivar took it to Rollsbo #1 cache Västra Götaland, Sweden - 5.95 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2012 connyivar took it to Gäddevattnet cliff Västra Götaland, Sweden - .31 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2012 connyivar took it to Johnny(s) Cache Västra Götaland, Sweden - 9.29 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2012 connyivar took it to Naniten 2 Västra Götaland, Sweden - .22 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/8/2012 connyivar took it to Hatten II Västra Götaland, Sweden - .24 miles  Visit Log
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