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.

(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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

It was taken out of Egypt in 1799 during French colonial rule and is now at the British Museum in London. Hawass said a statue of Ramses from the Turin Museum in Italy was also on his "wish list." ...

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 ...

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 ...