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A Return to Whimsical Bohemia in Cedar Rapids – Czech Village & NewBo

By Joanne Galko

You are looking at a depiction of the Rosetta Stone. A crooked roughly 4×3 foot black basalt stone slab artifact with scribbles on it, the Rosetta Stone was unearthed in 1799 by a French soldier, Pierre Bouchard, from Napoleon Bonaparte’s army near the town of Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt. The scribbles, written in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and ancient Egyptian script, detailed the same story. The significance of this is that it enabled scholars, namely Jean-Francois Champollion, to crack the meaning of the language of hieroglyphics, thus revealing ancient Egyptian civilization like never before. View the Rosetta Stone currently on display at the British Museum in London.

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