360What happened in 1799?
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- History · 15 July 1799
The Rosetta Stone is found
On 15 July 1799, French soldiers rebuilding a fort near Rashid, known to Europeans as Rosetta, in Egypt, found a stone carved with the same decree in three scripts: hieroglyphs, demotic and ancient Greek. Because scholars could read the Greek, it became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian writing, which Jean-François Champollion achieved in 1822.
- On this day · 15 July 1799
The Rosetta Stone is found
On 15 July 1799, French soldiers rebuilding a fort near Rashid, known to Europeans as Rosetta, in Egypt, found a stone carved with the same text in three scripts, including Greek and hieroglyphs. It became the key that let the scholar Jean-François Champollion decipher ancient Egyptian writing in 1822.
- 15 July 1799 · from The Rosetta Stone is found
The stone is found
- 1799 · from The 1790s: the first vaccine and the metric system
Rosetta Stone found
- 1799 · from The French Revolution begins
Napoleon takes power