This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799
... Once the Rosetta Stone inscriptions were translated, the language and culture
... [DOC] [TLE] Rosetta Stone found  Bowie News [PAR] Jul 19, 2016 ... On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French 
soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing ... written in 
three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic.