Events

Conventional date (476 CE) for the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer, marking the traditional end of the Weste...

Decisive naval battle in 31 BCE in which Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, ending the Ptolemaic dynasty and b...

Jean-François Champollion announced the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in his "Lettre à M. Dacier" in September 18...

French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone near the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in July 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian c...