Pierre-François Bouchard’s men discovered the ancient stone slab
Rosetta Stone (RS)
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- Rosetta Stone_ Wikipedia
- Explore the Rosetta Stone_ British Museum
- Rosetta Stone_ Britannica
- What is Rosetta Stone and why is it important?
- Rosetta Stone- Smithsonian
On July 19, 1799, Pierre- Francois Bouchard's men discovered an ancient "basalt" slab in Rosetta (local name Rashid), Egypt. It was covered with 3 types of writing- Demotic, Hieroglyphics and ancient Greek. Scholars traced origin of the RS to 196 BCE in Egypt's Ptolemaic era
Click map of the Ptolemaic dynasty
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