Carving of the Rosetta Stone
196 BCE · Event
In 196 BC priests inscribed a decree of Ptolemy V on a granodiorite stele in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek - the trilingual text that, rediscovered in 1799, unlocked the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Akhenaten's religious revolution (1347 BCE)
- Naqada culture (4000 BCE)
- Djoser's Step Pyramid built (2650 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)
- Kushite conquest of Egypt (750 BCE)
- Champollion deciphers hieroglyphs (1822)
- Persian conquest of Egypt (525 BCE)
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)