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What discovery helped to recognize the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs?

In 1799, during the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon, the French officer Bouchard discovered a basalt slab with mysterious inscriptions near the city of Rosetta (on the banks of the western branch of the Nile Delta). As it soon turned out, this so-called Rosetta stone was carved with an inscription of thanksgiving by Egyptian priests to Ptolemy V Epiphanes (196 BC).

The same text was recorded three times - in ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and demotic writing (hieroglyphic cursive).

Thanks to the comparison of Greek and Egyptian texts, the French scientist Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832) deciphered the meaning of hieroglyphs in 1822 and thus laid the foundation for a new field of historical science - Egyptology.

The Rosetta Stone is currently housed in the British Museum in London.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Why were censuses in the Russian Empire called audits?

In 1718, by decree of Peter I, a population census began in Russia. The lists of peasants were to be submitted by the landowners themselves. Several years passed, and the landowners did not submit information. Those of the nobles who introduced them, as it turned out, did not show in them all the peasants they owned. Threats of death penalty and confiscation of hidden souls did not have the expected impact.

In 1721, the "last decree" was published - "so that those who fell into that concealment in error could all be corrected" and report about the concealment until September 1. The landowners did not want to take advantage of the postponement and amnesty. Then the tsar instructed specially created offices, staffed by officers, to double-check the statements submitted by the landowners.

Since that time, the name "revision" (from Latin - revision) has been established behind the censuses. By the way, the offices then discovered the concealment of one million male souls.

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