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How a dusty stone unlocked Egypt’s past

In 1799, French soldiers repairing a fort wall in Egypt stumbled upon the Rosetta Stone, unknowingly unlocking the key to ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...
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Worcester County wonders: The 2,000-year-old local still turning heads

She's called Holy Cross, Worcester Art Museum, and now Fitchburg Art Museum home.

Plaster-making technique previously attributed to the Romans appears 8,000 years earlier in Motza

Excavations from 2015 to 2021 on the ancient site of Motza, just west of Jerusalem, revealed a sprawling settlement with some ...