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    Good luck and bad have delivered MAJOR TRIUMPHS IN SCIENCE HISTORY

    Mar 31, 2021 3 minutes
    By Jesper Rovsing Olsen

    HIEROGLYPHS

    Tri-lingual stone broke the code

    n 1799, Napoleon’s French soldiers were expanding a fort in Rosetta, Egypt. Soldiers tore down the ancient city walls to use the stones for the new fortifications, and it was noted that one of the old stones from the wall was covered with three sets of characters. The mysterious stone was immediately sent to Cairo, where a team of scientists realised that the soldiers had made a unique discovery. The text on the stone proved to be the same words written in Ancient Greek, Demotic Egyptian, and hieroglyphic

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