This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799
It was 
found by a French artillery officer called Boussard, among the ruins of Fort Saint 
Julien, near the Rosetta mouth of the Nile, in 1799, but subsequently came into 
the... [DOC] [TLE] The Discovery and Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone at the British ... [PAR] On its face three different forms of writing are inscribed.