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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1993-09-03  |  5.9 MB  |  720x480  |  29.97fps  |  1 minute, 10 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: Soldiers, from the summit of these pyramids, 40 centuries look down on you. Napoleon failed in his invasion of Egypt in 1798, but he found the key to 4,000 years of Egyptian history, the Rosetta Stone. The writing system of ancient Egypt had gone unread for 1400 years. It was Alexander the Great who brought the Greek language and alphabet to the Nile. The Rosetta stone contained a single inscription written in both systems. It still took decades to translate the stone and the hundreds of papyrus records and inscriptions found in Egypt because scholars mistakenly thought it was a pictorial scri ...