According to the passage, what caused the Rosetta
Stone to be unearthed?
O A note led the soldiers to the spot.
A note from a French army officer accompanied the
package. He told the scholars that the stone had been
unearthed in an old fort near the town of Rosetta, thirty-
five miles north of Alexandria. French soldiers were
tearing down a ruined wall in the fort when they came
upon the slab. The top right and left corners were
missing, as was the bottom right corner. The soldiers had
gone over the rest of the wall carefully in hopes of finding
the missing pieces embedded in it, but with no luck.
– The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin
Three corners were missing from the slab.
The soldiers went over the wall carefully.
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The wall was ruined and was being torn down.