Discovered in the town of Rashid, it discusses a desire to improve conditions for the people and the gratitude exclaimed by the priests.
Early analyses were attempted by Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Akerblad. It states that priests "should not pay their tax on becoming priests" and "renounced the two-thirds share of linen of the fine linen that used to be made in the temples for the Treasury". Discovered in the town of Rashid, it discusses a desire to improve conditions for the people and the gratitude exclaimed by the priests. Thomas Young made a more successful attempt at deciphering, but it would take the efforts of French linguist Jean Francois Champollion to finish it, using the demotic script as a guide. Chiefly concerned with King Ptolemy V and discovered by Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, FTP, what item allowed comprehension of Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Early analyses were attempted by Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Akerblad.
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