answers: Rosetta Stone
context: in 1799 of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops (during Napoleon's Egyptian invasion) provided the critical information which allowed Jean-François Champollion, taking into the account the work of other scholars, to discover the nature of the script by the 1820s. He had been introduced to hieroglyphics at the tender age of 10 and so began a lifelong fascination. A significant breakthrough was made by Champollion in 1822, as reflected in his well-known "Lettre à M. Dacier": "It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say </s> lost. In 1887 a local woman digging for "sebakh" uncovered a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets (now commonly known as the Amarna Letters). These tablets recorded select diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaoh and were predominantly written in Akkadian, the "lingua franca" commonly used during the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East for such communication. This discovery led to the recognition of the importance of the site, and lead to a further increase in exploration. Between 1891 and 1892 Alessandro Barsanti 'discovered' and cleared the king's tomb (although it was probably known to the local population from about </s> spells. Most commonly "cured" by use of amulets or magical spells, the illnesses were thought to be caused by spiteful behavior or actions. Afterwards, doctors performed various medical treatments if necessary. The instructions for these medical rituals were later inscribed on papyrus scrolls by the priests performing the actions. Dated to circa 1800 BCE, the "Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus" is the oldest known medical text in Egypt. It was found at El-Lahun by Flinders Petrie in 1889, first translated by F. Ll. Griffith in 1893, and published in "The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob". The papyrus contains 35
question: discovered in 1799 it enabled linguists to decipher hieroglyphics