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Why was Rosetta Stone important to historians

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Rosetta Stone helped scholars crack the code of hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian writing system. French army engineers who were part of Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt campaign discovered the stone slab in 1799 while making repairs to a fort near the town of Rashid

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