The Egyptian port of Rashid was the scene of the discovery of a famous artifact in 1799. It eventually lent its name to a vehicle that approached an astronomical discovery by the astronomers Svetlana Gerasimenko and Klim Churyumov.
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What is this name?
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"Rosetta". The Rosetta Stone, which helped decipher the Egyptian writing script, was found there and lent its name to the Rosetta spacecraft which will attempt to study a comet found by these astronomers.
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