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Demotic on the Rosetta stone

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Napolenon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798. He bought many scholars and archaeologists with him. In 1799 a French soldier discovered a stone in the town of Rosetta. It was a slab of granite like rock with the same message crafted on it in three different scripts. The discovery of the stone, called Rosetta Stone, meant that hieroglyphics could be translated.

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