15th July 1799, French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard, stationed in the Egyptian village of Rosetta comes across a large stone slab. displaying hieroglyphs, demotic and Ancient Greek. The stone was recognized as an important discovery in deciphering hieroglyphs which had been unreadable since the 5th century. The stone was later captured by the British, which caused a rivalry between British and French attempts to crack the code, between British physician, physicist, and polymath Thomas Young, and French scholar, philologist, and orientalist , Jean-Francois Champollion. Both Young and Champollion are credited as being the founders of Egyptology. It was Champollion who finally deciphered the hieroglyphics in 1822. Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign between 1798 and 1801, led to the ‘Description de l'Égypte’, published between 1809 and 1821. The work was a comprehensive scientific description of ancient and modern Egypt, as well as its natural history. The work led to ‘Egyptomania', the late 18th and 19th century explosion of popular interest in the ancient culture of Egypt, which has never really faded to this day. Ironically as this day during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign marked the beginning of the rise of Napoleon it also marked its end. On the same day in 1815 Napoleon after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and his abdication surrendered to British Royal Navy Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort, to be transported to military exile on the island of Saint Helena, until his death on the 5th May 1821, a year before Champollion deciphered the Rosetta Stone. All art shown is for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #tarot #tarotcards #tarotillustration #steampunktarot #historicaltarot #napoleonbonaparte #egyptomania #napoleonicwars #egyptology #egyptologist #greatpyramid #greatpyramids #historicalillustration #rosettastone #descriptiondelegypte #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #jeanfrancoischampollion #thomasyoung #egyptianmummies #pageofwands #pageofwandstarot #suitofwands #egyptiantarot #tarotdeck #tarotdecks #mummies #egyptianhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CRWpKgqFlB8/?utm_medium=tumblr
