French soldiers were tearing down a ruined wall in the fort when they came upon the slab. He told the scholars that the stone had been unearthed in an old fort near the town of Rosetta, thirty-five miles north of Alexandria. When they opened it, they found it contained a black stone slab covered with writing in three different scripts.Ī note from a French army officer accompanied the package. In late August, shortly after Napoleon's departure, a large, heavy package arrived at the scholars' palace in Cairo. The French army stayed behind in Egypt-and so did the scholars. TERMS IN THIS SET (16) Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.
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