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ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)

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ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid) , a See also:town situated at the western or " Rosetta " mouth of the See also:Nile on the See also:west See also:bank. It was called Bolbitine by the Greeks, but according to See also:Herodotus the Bolbitine mouth was artificial, and it was evidently of little importance compared with the Canopic, Sebennytic and Pelusiac mouths. When the other branches and the See also:Alexandria See also:canal silted up, Rosetta prospered like its See also:sister See also:port of See also:Damietta on the eastern See also:branch; the See also:main See also:trade of the overland route to See also:India passed through it until Mehemet See also:Ali cut a new canal joining Alexandria to the Nile. Rosetta is now much decayed. Its See also:population in 1907 was 16,81o, almost entirely Mussulman. A railway joins it to Alexandria. The celebrated Rosetta See also:Stone which supplied See also:Champollion with the See also:key for the decipherment of the See also:ancient monuments of See also:Egypt was found near Fort St See also:Julien, 4 M. N. of the town, in 1799, by Boussard, a See also:French officer. It is a See also:basalt See also:stele inscribed in hieroglyphic, See also:demotic and See also:Greek with a See also:decree of the priests assembled at See also:Memphis in favour of See also:Ptolemy V. Epiphanes. It was ceded to the See also:English at the See also:capitulation of Alexandria (18or) and is now in the See also:British Museum. See EGYPT: II.

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