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Rosetta Stone discovered at Rashid
July 1799 · Modern revival
Soldiers digging fortifications near Rashid uncover a decree inscribed in hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek. The Greek text provides the key; scholars will need Coptic to read what lies behind it.
Why it matters for the language — Coptic's living vocabulary was about to resurrect Egypt's oldest scripts.
