The Rosetta Stone

In 1799, during the Egyptian military campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte, a block of black basalt was discovered at Rosetta. A long message was written on it, with the same text repeated in three languages: Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. The rock block (today displayed at the British Museum) would become famous under the nickname of "Rosetta stone", as it was the key for the decryption of the old Egyptian Hieroglyphic code.

As in exactly the two following years after the discovery of the stone, Bichat's publications became the foundations for the knowledge of the textures/tissues, it can be said that those manuscripts were a kind of "Rosetta stone" of Histology.