When Napoleon's army accidentally stumbled upon a large stone covered in ancient text in 1799 in Egypt, they could not have known that the artifact would go on to become one of the most important ...

This latest recounting of the 1799 discovery of the Rosetta Stone—the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—focuses less on the decoding itself and more on the French invasion of Egypt ...

Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...