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This week in history: The Rosetta Stone

by David Tollen | Sep 27, 2019 | The Early Modern Age, Linguistics & Philology

On this day in 1822, Jean-Francois Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone, 23 years after its discovery. The Rosetta Stone records a 196 BC decree from the reign of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes of Egypt, and it’s written in 3 different languages....
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