<story><title>How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/how-the-rosetta-stone-yielded-up-its-secrets-edward-dolnick-the-writing-of-the-gods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmmayer1</author><text>It really makes you think about how many of the things we know today are based on very loose wisps of foundational information, and this makes knowledge both more precious (because it&amp;#x27;s so hard to come by), and also should give us great pause to consider any knowledge so sacrosanct, given how it could take a very small piece of new uncovered information to completely change how we think about the world.&lt;p&gt;George Washington didn&amp;#x27;t know about dinosaurs. What don&amp;#x27;t we know about yet, and what do we think is true that will turn out not to be?</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/how-the-rosetta-stone-yielded-up-its-secrets-edward-dolnick-the-writing-of-the-gods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&amp;gt;  Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C., after Caesar Augustus (at that time still called Octavian) defeated the forces of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium,&lt;p&gt;Actually, the fall of Egypt is much earlier. Nectanebo II in 342 BC was the last native ruler of Egypt (and even he was part of a rebel dynasty that ruled for around 40 years after successfully revolting against the Persians who had conquered Egypt under Cambyses in the 500&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;The Rosetta Stone, was probably the single greatest archeological discovery to date. It opened up the written history of arguably one of the oldest civilizations in the world and which was throughout much of history either one of or involved with the greatest empires in history.</text></comment>