Egypt celebrates the 221st anniversary of discovering Rosetta Stone on July 19

CAIRO - 18 July 2020: Egypt celebrates 221 years since the discovery and decoding of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt on July 19.

Located currently at the British Museum in London since 1802, the stone was found in 1799 by an officer in the French military campaign in Egypt. 

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic and ancient Greek inscriptions praising King Ptolemy V are carved onto the stone. 

The French Egyptologist Champollion succeeded in cracking the Rosetta Stone’s code using his knowledge of ancient Greek. 

Egyptologists have later worked on studying the stone with the aim to expose in depth details of ancient Egyptian history.