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Have you ever wanted to learn how to read hieroglyphs? Egyptologist Chris Naunton explores the history of hieroglyphs and how they were decoded. 00:05 History of Hieroglyphs 01:60 Rosetta Stone 04:40 ...

Upper part of the stele discovered with the monolingual inscription of the Canopus decree. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In a discovery described as transcendental, an Egyptian ...

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...

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Alexander the Great, one of the most famous conquerors in history, was born in 365 BC. At the age of 20, after the death of his father who was king of Macedonia, a region in the north of Greece, ...

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This weekend, dozens of artists are set to descend on Los Angeles for the 66th annual Grammy Awards. Trevor Noah will tell jokes, musicians will get trophies—and somewhere on the internet, someone ...

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Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...