Which line from the riddle of the rosetta stone best illustrates the author’s purpose in printing excerpts from the decree inscribed on the rosetta stone? it took more than a hundred years, and the efforts of many scholars, to translate all three passages new translations of the hieroglyphic text were made in france and germany present-day experts hope that an even more complete copy of the hieroglyphic inscription may yet be found they give a sense of its content and the style in which it was written