19 July 2016

History for the day: 1799: Rosetta Stone found



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Subject: 1799: Rosetta Stone found

This day in History
Jul
19
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1799
Rosetta Stone found
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different... read more »
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