The story of Rashid Stone:
The Rashid Stone was discovered on July 19, 1799 AD by the French soldier Pierre-François Bouchard, marking the beginning of entering the world of the ancestors and the makers of the first and oldest civilization in human history.
The Rashid Stone is a granodiorite monument with a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three texts: the upper text is ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the middle part is Demotic text, and the lower part is ancient Greek, Because it presents essentially the same text in all three texts, “with some minor differences between them,” the stone is the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The stone was discovered under the ruins of Qaitbay Citadel, “Tabia Rashid,” in the city by a French soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard, while he was carrying out engineering work inside it. It is believed that the stone was part of a huge memorial located in one of the ancient Rashid temples, and it is believed that it was standing on a high base. It is a black basalt stone, 115 cm long, 73 cm wide, and 28 cm thick. It is believed that its original height was six feet, but its upper peak and the corners at the top and bottom have disappeared.
It is mentioned that the occasion of writing the stone, when a revolution broke out in Egypt by the priests against Ptolemy IV in the Delta, and after his death in 204 AD, internal strife broke out, and then his son Ptolemy V took over the rule of Egypt. He put an end to the revolutions, pardoned the people, abolished taxes, released the prisoners, and returned to the priests their privileges that his father had taken away. Here, the Egyptian priests wanted to glorify the actions of Ptolemy V. They held great celebrations to pledge allegiance to him and recorded these deeds on the Rashid Stone. It is believed that the stone had many copies, but they disappeared and only the Rashid Stone remained. None of the archaeologists in the world were able to decipher the stone’s codes, until the year 1826 AD when the world announced The Frenchman, Jean-François Champollion, responsible for the Egyptian Antiquities Department at the Louvre Museum, achieved a solution to the issue of the inscriptions written on the stone, as he was guided by the oval shapes found in the hieroglyphic text, which are known as cartographies and include the names of kings and queens, and by comparing these names with the Greek text, he was able to distinguish the names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra. This was the episode that led to the decoding of the hieroglyphic language.
Correction: Champollion was the first to know the ancient Egyptian language There was a From the East world He translated the Egyptian language and compared its letters to the Arabic letters, and he has a famous document, which Champollion used.
He gave the credit to himself
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