In 1799 — about a year into Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of Egypt — French engineers doing demolition work in the delta town of El-Rashid made a remarkable find. While tearing down a wall, they unearthed a large black granite stone with parallel inscriptions in two languages and three scripts. The stone, which (1) ______ into British hands in 1801 and now (2) ______ in the British Museum, was crucial to the (3) ______ of Egyptian hieroglyphics by scholars in the 19th century. Today the Rosetta Stone is one of the world’s bestknown archaeological artifacts, (4) ______ by millions of visitors a year.

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