The riddle of the Rosetta how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs
"In 1799, a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphic, and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact, which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, has traditionally played...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2399330.pdf |