
The Rosetta Stone: Decoding Ancient Egypt’s Lost Language
In July 1799, during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, French soldiers unearthed a granodiorite slab near the town of Rosetta (modern-day Rashid). This artifact, later known as the Rosetta Stone, featured a decree from 196 B.C. inscribed in three scripts: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The presence of the same text in multiple…