What would you do if you found the most amazing artifact while invading another country? You could send it to your base, which is exactly what happened to a French officer during the Napoleonic Conquest and Occupation of Egypt. What they didn’t know was how valuable it was at the time. You see, about two decades later some guy would decipher the text and that would be the key to unlocking the ancient civilization of Egypt. The French were pretty smart for keeping it you could say. The artifact was a huge stone with scribbles for writing. The stone was found at an old fort near the town of Rosetta so they named the rock Rosetta Stone based on where they found it. Not very much creativity on their part, so I guess (read the whole blog so you will understand) ancient Egyptians had about as much creativity as the French in the early 1800’s. What do you think about the discovery? Good or bad?
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