Discovery of the Rosetta Stone
“Fort Julien at Rosetta, Egypt, July 19, 1799. French engineers brush sand from a slab of black granodiorite. Foreground shows officer Pierre-François Bouchard pointing at the three scripts as another rubs charcoal across a section; midground reveals soldiers with picks and a half-cleared trench; the Nile delta marshes and date palms stretch behind under fierce Mediterranean sun.”
