In 1799, Napoleon's troops found a stone covered with the same inscription in three languages, including Greek and Egyptian. The discovery led to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics (Greek ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on ... but the turbulent history surrounding its discovery and translation is more obscure. The Rosetta Stone’s text is a royal decree venerating ...

No one set out to find the Rosetta Stone. Indeed, on July 19, 1799, French troops were merely ... Champollion’s discovery, and further works on hieroglyphics, made him the so-called “Father ...

Now, hundreds of years after the discovery of the stone, Dr Gamal says the ... for a kind of fort extension in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rashid (Rosetta), a strategic port city 65km east ...