On16 December 1896, Egyptologist Flinders Petrie stumbled upon an unimpressive temple in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The crumbling sandstone sphinxes and the looted remains saddened him.
Petrie was about to move on.
But then he discovered a ten-foot-long, five-foot-wide black granite stele. The inscription caught his eye. He asked his team to cut the stones blocking the stele, a decision that would change history.
It wasn’t any ordinary inscription.