In 1799, one of Napoleon's lieutenants, while digging the foundation, discovered the Rosetta Stone, the cornerstone of ancient Egyptian civilization.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered "inadvertently" by the French army while digging the foundation in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, and is inscribed in three fonts: Ancient Greek, Sacrificial, and Popular.
Only 24 years later, in 1822, French scholars published the results of their study of the Rosetta Stone, the day Egyptology was founded.
According to their research, the Rosetta Stele was made from an ancient Egyptian sacrifice in 196 BC (yes, the time is so precise, cattle are not cattle), the stele is 1.14 meters high, densely packed, engraved with 100 lines of "fly head small kai" inscription, and these inscriptions are very clear.
Cracking the text on the stone tablet is equivalent to cracking the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the edifice of ancient Egyptian civilization was built, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Rosetta Stone is the foundation of ancient Egyptian civilization.
The Rosetta Stone has always been controversial, the biggest controversy is that the site of discovery Rosetta may have been the ocean before the fifteenth century, formed by the alluvial sediment of the Nile, and now only 4 kilometers from the coastline.
Rosetta was formed 600 years ago, while the Rosetta Stone was made more than 2,200 years ago, which is somewhat contradictory and questioned.
Before the West could explain, the domestic spiritual Westerners forcibly explained a wave, arguing that the location of the discovery ≠ the place of production, and the Rosetta Stone was transported to Rosetta by later generations as stone.
That problem comes again, Rosetta is treated as stone, that is to say, it must not have been well preserved before, an inscription on a stone stele that has not been well preserved, after more than 2,000 years of wind and rain is still so clear, this technology is too cattle, look at our pre-Qin period of the stone drum text, obviously is a world of difference, I have to say about the predecessors of the pre-Qin, why can't go to ancient Egypt to study well, leave some precious cultural relics for future generations.
Ancient Egyptian civilization certainly existed, but whether the Rosetta Stone was processed and beautified by later generations is not certain.
