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The Rosetta Stone is rediscovered. During the Egyptian campaign, a group of Napoleonic soldiers discovered a black basalt stele bearing ancient inscriptions near the town of Rosetta. According to the Greek text, the stele was engraved in the second century BC. The “Rosetta Stone” was studied for twenty years, until French Egyptologist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion made a sensational discovery: the two Egyptian inscriptions\u2014hieroglyphic and demotic\u2014on the stone corresponded to the same spoken language. The artifact helped solve the enigma of hieroglyphics, a form of writing that had been extinct for over two thousand years. Knowing demotic, Champollion was able to decipher the characters, offering scholars an extraordinary key to understanding the language and culture of ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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