The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek). All three scripts were used in Egypt at the time that it was made (196 BCE). It was written by a group of priests to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It was found in the town of Rosetta in 1799 AD by French soldiers. Many scholars began trying to decipher it but it was very problematic. Jean-François Champollion is credited with deciphering hieroglyphs in 1822 AD.