Post by MikeC99 on Jul 18, 2015 23:14:33 GMT -5
On July 19, 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers in Egypt. It contains writing in two languages (Egyptian and Greek) using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek). The stone was carved in 196 B.C. Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs in 1822.
