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17.04.2020 • 
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Which best describes the
Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone."
Then chance stepped in. In 1798, Napoleon went to Egypt to
protect its trade interests. In addition to an army, he brought
along Egyptian scholars who were charged with copying the
inscriptions and studying the architecture.
O problem and solution
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O comparison and contra
The following year, the French bolstered their defenses by
rebuilding a fort in the town of Rosetta. In the midst of the
fortification, the Rosetta Stone was discovered. Ironically,
this large stone tablet was found not by one of the scholars
but by a soldier. Luckily, he recognized that the inscriptions
must have value. Militarily, Napoleon's Egyptian campaign
was a disaster—the British decimated the French navy-but
historically, it was of long-lasting importance.

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