From the Rosetta Stone to King Tut — The Explosion of World Interest in Egypt
(Room Encanto B)
04 Jul 19
9:00 AM
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10:15 AM
The French army under Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone in Egypt in 1798. The scientific community tried to help translate it and was not successful until Dr. Thomas Young identified a cartouche and Jean Francois Champollion translated the hieroglyphic and demotic portions. Those translations continued to fuel the interest of the world. Egypt tried to control the excavations. An American, Theodore Davis, actually thought he had found the missing Tut tomb in 1908. He hadn’t. With the English expert Howard Carter and the English financier Lord Carnarvon, the real tomb was found in 1922. That find has revolutionized our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Come and hear their stories and the extent of their impact.