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After the Egyptian civilization came to an end, people eventually forgot how to read hieroglyphics. What object did French soldiers discover in 1799 that helped scholars learn how to read hieroglyphics?
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After the Egyptian civilization came to an end, people eventually forgot how to read hieroglyphics. What object did French soldiers discover in 1799 that helped scholars learn how to read hieroglyphics?

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They discover the Rosetta Stone a granite slab that had the same text written in Greek, Egyptian Demotic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphic so could be used to translate between those languages.
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