Champollion
The lecture will be held in the Seminars Hall of the French Cultural Center in the French language, accompanied by simultaneous translation into Arabic.
Abdel Latif added that the French campaign was not an occupational campaign.
On September 27, 1822, French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion was able to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs after studying the Rosetta Stone.
The Rosetta Stone is currently housed in the British Museum, after the British seized it in 1801 from the French campaign.
The British Museum houses unique ancient Egyptian artifacts, most notably the Rosetta Stone.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered by the French expedition in 1799 AD.
The first ever director-general of the International Francophone Organization was Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros Ghali (1997 and 2002).
