Helpful skills

With the right skills you can join Napoleon’s contingent of 150 savants and explore Egypt’s wonders

Surveying

If you can help the French engineers compile their maps of Egypt, you will be get to see the whole country.

Read ancient languages

The Rosetta Stone was discovered on Napoleon’s expedition but was confiscated by the British and not fully decoded until 1822. An understanding of Ancient Greek would help to speed up the process.

Zoology

As well as charting maps and recording ruins, Napoleon brought naturalists to collect and catalogue plants and animals, including the pufferfish and crocodiles that lived on the Nile, and the desert mongoose.