Decree of Canopus

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The Decree of Canopus is an ancient Egyptian priestly inscription from 238 BCE, issued under Ptolemy III and written in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek, notable for aiding the decipherment of Egyptian scripts alongside the Rosetta Stone.


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