Rosetta Stone Athanasius Kircher in the 17th, and Georg Zoëga in the 18th. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 provided critical missing information, gradually revealed by a succession of scholars, that eventually allowed Jean-François Champollion to solve the puzzle that Kircher had called the riddle of the Sphinx. The Greek text on the Rosetta Stone provided the starting point. Ancient Greek was widely known to scholars, but they were not familiar with details of its use in the Hellenistic period as a government language in Ptolemaic Egypt; large-scale discoveries of Greek papyri were a long way in the future. Thus,
Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc. found Rosetta Stone did not meet its burden for summary judgment. However, the question was whether Google had met "its" burden for summary judgment and given the evidence to support Rosetta Stone's claim, and that "Tiffany Inc. v. eBay, Inc." was decided after a trial and hence of limited application here, the Court overruled the district court's grant of summary judgment. The district court held that Rosetta Stone had failed to allege an implicit promise to pay, thus granting Google's motion to dismiss. The Court found this a misreading of the unjust enrichment standard, but upheld the motion to dismiss