Had it not been discovered by the French shortly after their arrival in 1799, the Rosetta Stone would still today be a piece of masonry for an unknown back-alley wall in a Egyptian fort. The entire hieroglyphic language would be unreadable; we would know nothing of ancient Egypt.
Had it not been discovered by the French shortly after their arrival in 1799, the Rosetta Stone would still today be a piece of masonry for an unknown back-alley wall in a Egyptian fort. The entire hieroglyphic language would be unreadable; we would know nothing of ancient Egypt.