vincent wrote:
>
>>
>> Mike, with all due respect to Space Cowboy, the Rosetta Stone is an
>> ancient
>> basalt tablet discovered in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
>
> I m afraid that 's not basalt, although it seems so, but it's black
> granit....
> I m not trying to resurect a Troll, am I?

It's not even black granite. It's rose and light grey colored.
Restoration work recently undertaken has proven that the black is from
the reverse rubbings they did to get the original impressions right
after it was found.

(you spread lamp-black over the surface, put down a piece of paper and
rub with a smooth stone. What you get looks (is, really, by definition)
like carbon paper....)

It's apparently very pretty but now it's harder to see the indentations.

--Leigh