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Line 61: The first copies of the stone's inscriptions were sent to France in 1800. In 1801 the French army in Egypt was besieged by British and [[Ottoman Empire\|Ottoman]] forces and surrendered in the [[Capitulation of Alexandria]]. By its terms, the Rosetta Stone passed to the British. Upon the stone's arrival in Britain, the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]] made engravings of its text and sent them to academic institutions across Europe.{{sfn\|Parkinson\|1999\|pp=20–22}} Reports from Napoleon's expedition spurred [[~~Egyptomania~~Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination\|a mania for ancient Egypt]] in Europe. Egypt was chaotic in the wake of the French and British withdrawal, but after [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt\|Muhammad Ali]] took control of the country in 1805, European collectors descended on Egypt and carried away numerous antiquities, while artists copied others.{{sfn\|Thompson\|2015a\|pp=108, 132–134}} No one knew these artefacts' historical context,{{sfn\|Robinson\|2012\|p=11}} but they contributed to the corpus of texts that scholars could compare when trying to decipher the writing systems.{{sfn\|Thompson\|2015a\|pp=119, 124}} ===De Sacy, Åkerblad and Young===

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