Today In History...

July 19, 1799…The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.

In July of 2000, when Corey and I went on vacation to England, one of the things we did was visit the British Museum.  What a fantastic place and somewhere I'd love to go visit again some day.  While there one of the things we got to see on display with The Rosetta Stone.

Corey standing in front of the "Rosetta Stone".  It was the key that unlocked the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphics.  Napoleon's troops discovered it in 1799 near the seaside town of Rosetta in lower Egypt and it eventually made its way into the British Museum.  It is a slab of black basalt dating from 196 BC inscribed with ancient Egyptians with a royal decree praising their king Ptolemy V.  The inscription is written three times, one in hieroglyphics, one in demotic and one in Greek.  From this meager starting point, Egyptologists eventually managed to read most everything that remains of the Egyptians ancient writings.

The Rosetta Stone

Even in England, Corey managed to "chat up" a girl who just happened to attend Georgia State University.

Our Could Have Been, Might Have Happened Brush With Royalty

I took Corey to England with me in July of 2000 when he was 17 and about to enter his senior year of high school. His dad didn't want to come along and so we left him behind. We were going to stay with friends of mine who live in northeastern England, but I wanted Corey to experience the things London had to offer. It was my third trip there and Corey's first and we spent the first day there doing the normal "touristy" things. In celebration of the wedding of William and Kate, here are only some of the pictures I took showing that Corey and I traveled the same route as the wedding procession did today.

First stop was to Buckingham Palace and we watched the changing of the guards. We just knew someone royal would come out and visit with us. Corey is standing where the throngs of people stood around the center fountain outside the palace to watch "the kiss" from the balcony today.Checking out Big Ben... And going to Westminster Abbey where the royal wedding took place.We were just 11 years too early for the wedding.