The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers, while he was campaigning in Egypt, according to The British Museum. The stone was found built into an ancient wall near ...

In July 1799, a year after Napoleon invaded Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was discovered by chance in the Nile Delta city of Rashid. A French military engineer supervising digging at an old fort ...

As History noted, Napoleon Bonaparte had instructed ... the soldier who’d overseen the work at the fort in Rosetta, ...

So in 1802 the Rosetta Stone made its way to London, where it was put on display at the British Museum almost immediately upon arriving. (Here's why Napoleon's military defeat in Egypt yielded a ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, then a general who led ... Égypte had collected during the previous few years, including the Rosetta Stone. General Menou tried, unsuccessfully, to claim the stone as his ...

Found while Napoleon’s army was digging the foundations of a fort in Rosetta, now El-Rashid, Egypt, the stone provided the key to decoding hieroglyphics — the ancient Egyptian writing system ...

The Rosetta Stone, on display at the British Museum in ... Tom Jamieson for The New York Times It was discovered in 1799, a year after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. As the French forces were ...

When Napoleon invaded Egypt ... that are considered milestones in the history of ophthalmology. 6. The Rosetta Stone helped Jean-François Champollion decipher hieroglyphs For centuries, no ...

CAIRO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab ...

In 1799, a French soldier found and seized a precious stone tablet during Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt. Taken from a fort near the town of Rosetta, this inscribed slab, now widely known as ...

The Rosetta Stone’s text is a royal decree venerating ... Soldiers excavated the stone and later presented to Napoleon. Then Britain seized it. After defeating Napoleon’s army at the Siege ...