Ajit Pai

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The stone contained 3 versions of a decree: one in hieroglyphs, one in Demotic (an ancient common-Egyptian script), and ancient Greek. After Napoleon was defeated, the British obtained the stone in 1801 and began deciphering it, deducing a reference to Ptolemy (201-181 BCE). 2/3 https://t.co/Ob6zAoc97B — PolitiTweet.org

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OTD in 1799, during Napoleon's Egypt campaign and while digging a foundation in the Nile Delta, his soldiers stumbled upon the Rosetta Stone, which apparently had been built into an old wall. The officer in charge realized the discovery's importance. https://t.co/jxWlvhQdLo 1/3 https://t.co/diL3awqtMM — PolitiTweet.org

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The breakthrough came in 1822, when French scholar Jean-François Champollion made key discoveries that helped crack the code and "laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture." You can read the full translation here: https://t.co/P73vfqbx7w 3/3 https://t.co/X2SgFXFYti — PolitiTweet.org

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