Promulgation of the Decree of Memphis (Rosetta Stone)
196 BCE
Carving of the trilingual decree under Ptolemy V, which enabled Champollion to decipher hieroglyphs in 1822.
Sources and References
Jean-François Champollion, Lettre à M. Dacier (1822)
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