The Rosetta Stone is from c. 200 BCE, issued by the Ptolemies in Egypt, ruling after Alexander had conquered Egypt. The first examples of writing in an ancient

The Rosetta Stone is from c. 200 BCE, issued by the Ptolemies in Egypt, ruling after Alexander had conquered Egypt. The first examples of writing in an ancient ancestor of our alphabet writing in Western Semitic are from c. ~1500 BCE where they were using Egyptian hieroglyphs as a model. People were writing in descendants of that alphabet for more than a thousand years when the Rosetta Stone was carved, the Greek script derived from Phoenician which evolved from West Semitic, while the hieroglyphs on the same stone were the model for West Semitic writing a thousand years before.