Rosetta Stone
196 BC · Resource
A granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree of Ptolemy V in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek scripts. Its trilingual text enabled Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 196 BCE
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Han dynasty begins (202 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)