For thousands of years, no one could read Egypt’s beautiful picture writing, called hieroglyphs. Then, in 1799, soldiers found the Rosetta Stone. It had the same message written in three different languages — Greek and two kinds of Egyptian writing. A smart man named Jean-François Champollion studied it carefully and finally figured out how to read hieroglyphs! Thanks to this discovery, people could finally understand the stories and secrets written on Egypt’s ancient walls and temples.