In July 1799, a year after Napoleon invaded Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was discovered by chance in the Nile Delta city of Rashid. A French military engineer supervising digging at an old fort ...

London CNN — Ancient Egypt exerts a powerful pull on the imagination ... stumbled upon a broken slab of an inscribed stone in 1799. The artifact depicted three different ancient scripts.

Napoleon approved, and two fresh commissions of savants arrived in Egypt on an archaeological mission in September 1799. Related stories Napoleon's savants published a giant encyclopedia of Egypt ...

The Rosetta Stone dates to 196 BC and was unearthed by Napoleon's army in northern Egypt in 1799. It became British property after Napoleon's defeat under the terms of the 1801 Treaty of ...

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers, while he was campaigning in Egypt, according to The British Museum. The stone was found built into an ancient wall near ...

A close-up view of the cartouche of the Ptolemaic dynasty Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes inscribed with the rest of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text in the upper portion of the Rosetta Stone ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s military occupation of Egypt, French scientists uncovered the stone in 1799 in the northern town of Rashid, known by the French as Rosetta. When British forces ...