Then, in 1798, Napoleon arrived. The French invasion was not only military but intellectual. With the French army came scholars. Soldiers re-building fortifications in Rosetta dug up the stone ...

More than 150 scientists went with Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt. They mapped pyramids, dissected mummies, and did ...

Find out how the discovery of the Rosetta Stone transformed our understanding of Ancient Egypt. #Shorts #History #Egypt ...

Then, in 1798, Napoleon arrived. The French invasion was not only military but intellectual. With the French army came scholars. Soldiers re-building fortifications in Rosetta dug up the stone ...

The stone would have lain undiscovered if it hadn’t been for Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers digging foundations for a kind of fort extension in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rashid (Rosetta), a ...