2017, ISBN: 197438845X

[EAN: 9781974388455], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. the southern end of the Egyptian Gallery … More...

[EAN: 9781974388455], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. the southern end of the Egyptian Gallery in the British Museum, and which has for more than a century been universally known as the Rosetta Stone, was found at a spot near the mouth of the great arm of the Nile that flows through the Western Delta to the sea, not far from the town of Rashid, or as Europeans call it, Rosetta. According to one account it was found lying on the ground, and according to another it was built into a very old wall, which a company of French soldiers had been ordered to remove in order to make way for the foundations of an addition to the fort, afterwards known as Fort St. Julien. * The actual finder of the Stone was a French Officer of Engineers, whose name is sometimes spelt Boussard, and sometimes Bouchard, who subsequently rose to the rank of General, and was alive in 1814. He made his great discovery in August, 1799. Finding that there were on one side of the Stone lines of strange characters, which it was thought might be writing, as well as long lines of Greek letters, Boussard reported his discovery to General Menou, who ordered him to bring the Stone to his house in Alexandria. This was immediately done, and the Stone was, for about two years, regarded as the General s private property.<

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Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], the southern end of the Egyptian Gallery in the British Museum, and which has for more than a century been universally known … More...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], the southern end of the Egyptian Gallery in the British Museum, and which has for more than a century been universally known as the " Rosetta Stone," was found at a spot near the mouth of the great arm of the Nile that flows through the Western Delta to the sea, not far from the town of "Rashid," or as Europeans call it, " Rosetta." According to one account it was found lying on the ground, and according to another it was built into a very old wall, which a company of French soldiers had been ordered to remove in order to make way for the foundations of an addition to the fort, afterwards known as "Fort St. Julien."* The actual finder of the Stone was a French Officer of Engineers, whose name is sometimes spelt Boussard, and sometimes Bouchard, who subsequently rose to the rank of General, and was alive in 1814. He made his great discovery in August, 1799. Finding that there were on one side of the Stone lines of strange characters, which it was thought might be writing, as well as long lines of Greek letters, Boussard reported his discovery to General Menou, who ordered him to bring the Stone to his house in Alexandria. This was immediately done, and the Stone was, for about two years, regarded as the General's private property..., Contemporary Fiction<

2017, ISBN: 197438845X

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