THE ROSETTA STONE | How One Slab Decoded an Empire

THE ROSETTA STONE | How One Slab Decoded an Empire For centuries, the language of the pharaohs was a perfect mystery. Then, in 1799, a single stone was found that changed everything. This is the story of the Rosetta Stone, the artifact that cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphs and resurrected 3,000 years of lost history. How did a slab of black granite become the key to an entire civilization? This documentary explores: • The chance discovery by French soldiers during Napoleon's campaign. • The three languages inscribed on its surface: Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphics. • The genius of Jean-François Champollion and his race to decipher it. • How this single object transformed history and gave birth to modern Egyptology. This is the ultimate story of linguistic breakthrough and how we learned to read the ancient world. Sources & Research: The British Museum's official research on the Rosetta Stone. Historical letters and notes of Jean-François Champollion. Analysis from linguistic and archaeological scholars. #RosettaStone #AncientEgypt #Hieroglyphs #History #Documentary Subscribe to [History Untold] for more stories of the discoveries that changed how we see history.