When a French Soldier's Shovel Unlocked Ancient Egypt
A mysterious slab of stone, three scripts, and one stubborn genius later, the world finally learned to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. In this episode, we follow the Rosetta Stone from its accidental discovery during Napoleon's campaign to the breakthrough moment when Jean-François Champollion cracked the code and brought an entire civilization's words back to life.
Sources 1. Adkins, Lesley and Roy Adkins. The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. HarperCollins, 2000.
2. Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. University of…
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