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Butterfly Effect
Season 3 · Episode 3
Champollion, unravelling the mysteries of the stone
0.025mMarch 3, 2019
In July 1799 during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria the French soldiers of lieutenant Bouchard discover by chance at Rosetta a large black stone. It is in fact the fragment of a stele engraved in honor of King Ptolemy V including three writing systems: Greek Demotic and hieroglyphs.
Episodes
- Episode 1Gandhi, the force of willpower
- Episode 2Vikings, assault on the Frankish empire
- Episode 3Champollion, unravelling the mysteries of the stone
- Episode 4Kursk, the USSR strikes back
- Episode 5Lawrence of Arabia, for a fistful of sand
- Episode 6Augustus, emperor of the republic
- Episode 7Deepwater, an ocean of oil
- Episode 8Apartheid, the spiral of fear