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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Around 196 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)