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Rosetta Stone found

Found

1799

Its three scripts helped scholars read Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.

Wikidata P575: 1799Q48584, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“Rosetta i Nildeltaet. Fort Rashid Av Wael Mostafa . Lisens: CC BY SA 4.0 Stelen ble funnet under Napoleons felttog i Egypt i 1799 av Pierre-François Bouchard, en løytnant i troppestyrkene ledet av kavalerigeneral”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
“stele. Rosettestenen måler i dag ca. 112×76×28 cm og vejer ca. 760 kg. Fundet af Rosettestenen Rosettestenen blev fundet i juli 1799 under Napoleon Bonapartes felttog i Egypten og Syrien . Opdagelsen blev gjort af”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

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