Butterfly Effect
Season 3
Ep 5. Champollion: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Stone
- April 25, 2019
In July 1799, during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria, the French soldiers of lieutenant Bouchard discover by chance at Rosetta a large black stone. It is, in fact, the fragment of a stele engraved in honor of King Ptolemy V, including three writing systems: Greek, Demotic and hierogly.
