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The discovery of the Rosetta Stone — The unearthing of the trilingual stele, 1799
Digging a fort’s foundations, the Egyptian expedition’s soldiers unearthed a stele bearing the same text in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek — the key Champollion would use in 1822 to decipher the pharaohs’ script. (Editorial synthesis)
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone took place in Rosetta. (source: Larousse)
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone ended in a key to the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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