(Here's how Napoleon fed his army.) In 1799 Bonaparte decided that Egypt held nothing more for him and returned to France, leaving his men under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber.

Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt led to a decisive showdown at Aboukir in 1799. Outnumbered but determined, his army faced off against the Ottomans in a battle that would define the campaign.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.