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The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt by Napoleon's team of French scholars was key to the translation of hieroglyphics, and caused a sensation in the early 19th Century. Modern Egyptomania swept France and Britain.

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A Sevres porcelain dessert service on display at Apsley House in London shows scenes from the Egyptian expedition and incorporates miniature Egyptian buildings. This was especially commissioned by Napoleon for the Empress Josephine and then became the possession of the Duke of Wellington after the Napoleonic Wars.

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