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In the sweltering sands of Egypt, where the Nile's ancient whisper contends with the thunder of modern arms, there dawned upon the world in the year of our Lord 1799 a moment of transcendent fortune amid the tempests of Bonaparte's audacious campaign. It was a humble French engineer, one Captain Pierre-François Bouchard, whose spade, in the shadow of the fortress at Rosetta, unearthed from the reluctant earth a slab of granodiorite, black as the midnight of forgotten empires, inscribed with the sacred triptych of human genius: the hieroglyphs of pharaohs long dust, the demotic script of the common throng, and the lucid Greek of Ptolemaic kings. This Rosetta Stone, as we have christened it, stood not merely as a trophy of war's capricious bounty, but as a beacon piercing the veil of millennia, unlocking the cryptic tongue of the pyramids and restoring to the living the voices of Ramses and his forebears. Thus did Providence, in its inscrutable wisdom, decree that from the clash of bayonets should emerge the resurrection of antiquity, reminding us that the greatest victories are not won on battlefields alone, but in the eternal conquest of the mind over the shadows of time.

CU/AP - rosetta stone

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