Rosetta: Ottoman Heritage & the Stone's Discovery Site

Rosetta (Rashid) is where Napoleon's soldiers unearthed the Rosetta Stone in 1799 — visit the modest marker at the discovery site, then walk streets lined with over 20 surviving Ottoman-era merchant houses, their facades built from alternating red and black brick in a style found almost nowhere else in Egypt. Finish at Fort Qaitbay on the Mediterranean shore, built to guard the Nile's western mouth.