THE ROSETTA STONE: Reading answers

I In 1799, during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, a French soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard made an unexpected discovery in the town of Rosetta. He found a large, dark stone slab inscribed with text. Recognizing its potential importance, the slab was secured. It was immediately clear that this was no ordinary artifact, as it appeared to contain the same text written in three different scripts, presenting a linguistic puzzle that had confused scholars for centuries. II The true value of the Rosetta Stone lay in its trilingual inscription. The top section was written in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the script of monuments and religious texts which no one at the time could read. The…