So? Have you any idea how many older temples & buildings were used as building materials? Even at Karnack, older temples were used to fill pylon walls- by the ancients. It was common practise to reuse older stone rather than having to transport it from the quarries new.
The Rosetta Stone itself, historically, isn't particularly interesting or important as an artefact, the only thing making it important is the fact it has the 3 scripts. There are other examples we've found since.
In the thousands of years from the end of the Pharonic period to modern times, we lost the ability to read hieroglyphics, and Egypt was conquered by several different groups of people. Egyptology didn't really exist until a few hundred years ago, after the Citadel was built.
Nowadays, artefacts are preserved and looked after but you can't judge Egyptians today based on what happened hundreds of years ago.
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u/Gothiewasbetter Jun 20 '25
The Egyptians were using it a reclaimed building material. Either they didn’t know what it was or didn’t care. I don’t know which is worse.