Bouchard's find is announced to Napoleon's newly…

July 1799 CE

Bouchard's find is announced to Napoleon's newly founded scientific association in Cairo, the Institut d'Égypte, in a report by Commission member Michel Ange Lancret noting that it contains three inscriptions, the first in hieroglyphs and the third in Greek, and rightly suggesting that the three inscriptions are versions of the same text.

Lancret's report, dated July 19, 1799, is read to a meeting of the Institute soon after July 25.

Bouchard, meanwhile, transports the stone to Cairo for examination by scholars.

Napoleon himself will inspect what had already begun to be called la Pierre de Rosette, the Rosetta Stone, shortly before his return to France in August.

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