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The French army stayed behind in Egypt—and so did the scholars. In late August, shortly after Napoleon's departure, a large, heavy package arrived at the scholars' palace in Cairo. When they opened it, they found it contained a black stone slab covered with writing in three different scripts.
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A. To develop the them that significant past experiences shape our present.
You didn't finish this question but I found the rest of it and it could be finished like "but the good introduction she had been writing all night wasn't good enough for her" or something along those lines
