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On this date in 1799 the Rosetta Stone was rediscovered near the town of Rashid (anglicized as Rosetta) in the Nile Delta in 1799 by a French soldier Pierre-Francois Bouchard, a part of Napoleon’s French expedition to Egypt. The first ancient trilingual text recovered in modern times, the Rosetta Stone promised an unusual glimpse into ancient Egyptian language. Reproductions of the stone were widely circulated in Europe and the race was on to translate the heiroglyphs. The stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria and was transported to London, where it has been on public display at the British Museum since 1802.
The task of translating the damaged obelisk was given to French wunderkind and linguistic genius Jean-Francois Champollion, who could speak a dozen languages while still in his teens in addition to a dozen dead or ancient languages. He spent three years (1822–1824) working on his translation and his 1824 work Précis du système hiéroglyphique started the field of modern Egyptology.
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Really?! 0U0
N9 Adar9k I’m pulling y9ur G9ddamn leg.
D9 y9u really think I can eat all 9f this 6y myself!?
I humbly request that you share that shit.
9nly 6ecause y9u asked s9 nicely.
Is that supposed to sound pitiful or hard, because I know a challenge when I see one.
If y9u kn9w a challenge when y9u see 9ne, why d9 y9u have t9 ask.
Don’t you dare say that again to my face or I will punch yours.
There’s n9t much y9u can d9 t9 my face that hasn’t already 6een d9ne.
Fuck you anon. Fuck you. Half of the time Ratakk needed patched up when I was alive he was in my hive. Half of that time I was helping with the patching.
6ecause y9u were his matesprit.
G9 fuck y9urself 9n a pike, Adar9k. We 69th kn9w it was a69ut needing 6lack pails 9n my end.
G9 fuck y9urself.
pragmaticartificer asked: So. What are you doing? 0u0
N9t y9u.
