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An Egyptian stone code causes the most famous archaeologist to faint for 5 days and defeats Napoleon

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The famous “National Geographic” magazine highlighted one of the most mysterious discoveries in the world, which puzzled scientists because of the presence of three languages ​​​​and many secrets in its code.

The men of the French officer, Pierre François Bouchard, discovered an ancient Egyptian stone tablet, on July 19, 1799, while they were implementing fortifications against the Ottoman forces, after they occupied a destroyed fortress in the Rashid area in Egypt, but they did not know that they had discovered a stone that “may change the world.” According to National Geographic.
According to the article titled (How the Rosetta Stone Revealed the Secrets of Ancient Civilizations), Bouchard asked, after watching him, amazed; If the inscriptions on the stone say the same thing in three different languages.

Although the text is incomplete on the discovered rock, which was called the “Rosetta Stone”, because it is part of a broken stele, it is priceless and is considered one of the most important discoveries in the world.
The Rosetta Stone caused a great defeat for Napoleon

According to the article, “When Napoleon led his campaign to occupy Egypt, against the Ottoman Empire, scholars and historians were part of the invading force,” and flocked to the country (Egypt) to document what they found there, and Egyptologists collected a large number of ancient artifacts that they wanted to send to France, including the Rosetta Stone.

But the British, on the other hand, wanted to enter Egypt as well, and in 1801 they defeated the French forces. French forces were allowed to vacate their positions “but the British demanded that the collection of antiquities be handed over before departure”.

The Rosetta Stone thus left his country, Egypt, in 1802, for London, where it was displayed in the British Museum almost immediately upon its arrival.

The magazine considered that “this is the only reason that made the military defeat of Napoleon in Egypt a historic victory for Britain,” as it described it.

The Rosetta Stone Code has baffled scientists

The magazine asserted that the stone had more secret symbolism than aesthetic, and “scientists have long puzzled over the meaning of the picture-like markings, known as hieroglyphs, made on ancient Egyptian tablets.”

Because it contained three identical languages, “scholars believed that the Rosetta Stone might be able to help solve the historical mystery of ancient Egypt.”

Scientists all over the world raced to try to translate the symbols of the stone. The famous British scientist, Thomas Young, considered the Rosetta Stone puzzle a “mathematical equation”, as he translated its texts into ancient Greek, made extensive notes on hieroglyphs and systematically tried to match each image with its translation. . Compare the avatars to those on other statues.

Why did the world famous Champollion fainted?

It was the famous French scientist known as the founder of Egyptology, Jean-François Champollion, who finally cracked the code in 1822. Champollion was fluent in the Coptic language and had extensive knowledge of Egypt.

Champollion discovered that the Demotic script (the Demotic script, one of the ancient Egyptian scripts that was used to write religious texts), which is the third writing system inscribed on the stele, transmits syllables and that the hieroglyphs represent Coptic sounds.

And when Champollion solved this mystery, “he ran to his brother’s office screaming: A delightful affair! (He knew the connection between the texts).” Then he fainted and did not recover for five days.
Champollion used the stone to create an entire alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphs, then other scholars enriched his research to translate the entire stone. The work of the French Egyptologist was eventually validated by the discovery and translation of the Edict of Canopus, or Tanis, whose importance comes after the Rosetta Stone as it was the first complete and in excellent condition to be found, after the Rosetta Stone, bearing a single text written in three Writings (hieroglyphics, ancient Greek and demotic).

The magazine asks: Was the Rashid stone stolen from Egypt?

The magazine considered its translation of the Rosetta Stone as the “backbone” of Egyptology, and asked: “But the stone itself is controversial as a spoil of war and colonial expansion. Was the Rosetta Stone taken to England or stolen by the British? That depends on who asks the question!” Source.

The article noted that there are many repeated calls to return the precious stone to Egypt, but it is still in the British Museum, where it receives more than six million visitors annually.

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