Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On this day in 1692, eight people were ...

On this day in 1822, an ”over-the-top, histrionic, melodramatic figure,” Jean-François Champollion, announced his decipherment of the Rosetta Stone, a stele from Ptolemaic Egypt inscribed with a ...