The stone repeats one decree in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Scholars read the Greek, then Young and Champollion matched names and sounds to decode the script.
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Workers quarried stone with copper tools, shipped it by Nile waterways, and hauled it up ramps on sledges. Scholars still debate the exact ramp design and placement methods.
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Yes. Cleopatra lived roughly 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid was built and about 2,000 years before Apollo 11, so the Moon landing is nearer in time.
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