Indeed, on July 19, 1799, French troops were merely fortifying an old fort in Rashid, or Rosetta, Egypt, to prepare for a looming battle with the Ottoman army. According to the British Museum ...

all had stretches of rule in Egypt. At some point the stone was moved from the temple at Sais in the Nile Delta, where we think it was first erected, to el-Rashid, or the town of Rosetta as we now ...

all had stretches of rule in Egypt. At some point the stone was moved from the temple at Sais in the Nile Delta, where we think it was first erected, to el-Rashid, or the town of Rosetta as we now ...

Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was ... that was likely situated inside a temple near el-Rashid (Rosetta), where it was discovered.

(in Egypt) supported the king ... foundations for a kind of fort extension in 1799 in the Egyptian town of Rashid (Rosetta), a strategic port city 65km east of Alexandria.