As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone.

The stone was found built into an ancient wall near the town of Rashid (Rosetta). When the British defeated the French, the ancient stone was put into British possession in 1801, according to ...

Instead, “the hieroglyphs … are a way of writing the Egyptian language in the same way that ‘ABC’ is a way of writing English, French or German,” Dolnick explains. The Rosetta Stone by ...

He shared his find with French scholars who had come to plumb Egypt for archaeological treasures. They got more than they bargained for. The slab was the Rosetta Stone, and the letters and symbols ...

In July 1799, a year after Napoleon invaded Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was discovered by chance in the Nile Delta city of Rashid. A French military engineer supervising digging at an old fort ...

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When the French were defeated by the British in 1801, the Rosetta Stone was seized, along with other antiquities, and now has pride of place in the British Museum. Upon Napoleon’s return to ...

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