In 1799, French soldiers repairing a fort wall in Egypt uncovered the Rosetta Stone by chance. The slab carried the same royal decree written in three scripts: hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. Because Greek was already understood, scholars could match meanings and finally crack how ancient Egyptian writing worked, reshaping history and archaeology.
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