As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was a most fortunate find. The stone’s three blocks of alternating script provided the key to deciphering ...

These were put up in major temple complexes across Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC, on the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V, by then a teenager. It's a decree issued by ...

The stone would have lain undiscovered if it hadn’t been for Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers digging foundations for a kind of fort extension in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rashid (Rosetta), a ...

Now, you can display the most-visited object in London's British Museum in your own home - the Rosetta Stone! This ancient stele holds the key to unlocking the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs ...

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Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in Egypt's fabled Valley of the ... Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone, John Lloyd Stephens and the Mayan city of Copán.

Champollion’s decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics was based on the fact that the Rosetta Stone (found during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt) had the same Greek names written in ancient Greek ...

These were put up in major temple complexes across Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC, on the first anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy V, by then a teenager. It's a decree issued by ...