 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - nhimbe yaNapoleon muna 1798 muEgipitakwakakurudzira kupararira kwechiEgipita muEurope, uye zvikurukuru muFrance. Boka revanhu 167 vaiva nyanzvi dzezvokugadzira zvinhu nyanzvi, raizivikanwa seCommission des Sciences et des Arts, rakaenda neuto rokuFrance raienda kuIjipiti. Muna 1799, varwi veFrance vaitungamirirwa naColonel dHautpoul vakanga vachisimbisa masvingo eFort Julien, makiromita mashomanana kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweguta rechiteshi chengarava reEgypt reRosetta Rashid yemazuva ano. Mukuru wemauto, Pierre-François Bouchard, akaona dombo rakanga rakanyorwa mashoko pane rimwe divi rakanga rakafukurwa nemasoja. Iye naDHautpoul vakaona pakarepo kuti kwaigona kuva kunokosha ndokuzivisa Mukuru Mukuru Jacques-François Menou, uyo akaitika kuva paRosetta. Kuwana kwacho kwakaziviswa kusangano resayenzi rakanga richangobva kuumbwa naNapoleon muCairo, Institut dÉgypte, mumushumo wakanyorwa nenhengo yeKomisheni Michel Ange Lancret achitaura kuti raiva nemanyoro matatu, okutanga aiva nemanyoro ezvinyorwa uye wechitatu ari muchiGiriki, uye achitaura zvakarurama kuti manyoro matatu aiva shanduro dzemashoko mamwe chetewo. Mushumo waLancret, wa1799, wakaverengwa pamusangano weInstitute nokukurumidza pashure pacho. Panguva iyi, Bouchard akaendesa dombo racho kuCairo kuti riongororwe nenyanzvi. Napoleon amene akaongorora icho chakanga chatanga kunzi la Pierre de Rosette, Dombo reRosetta, nguva pfupi asati adzokera kuFrance muna August 1799. 