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Was Cleopatra Black? A New Netflix Series Is Reviving an Old Controversy
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAdele James in Queen Cleopatra. Credit - Courtesy of Netflix The monumental legacy of Cleopatra,...
Archaeologists find top half of giant Ramesses II statue, completing a century-long puzzle
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAn excavated statue of Ramesses II. The upper half of a giant statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh...
Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on 'Rosetta Stone'-like tablets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe tablets were found in Iraq about 30 years ago. Scholars started studying them in 2016 and...
'Ritual text' from lost Indo-European language discovered on ancient clay tablet in Turkey
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA broken clay tablet with cuneiform against a black background. . Words from a "lost" language...
Tate Modern adds trigger warning to puppet show advising viewers of ‘violence and dead bodies’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe 2010 film reconstructs events that took place between 1095–1099, in the first of the Crusades -...
British Museum launches hieroglyphs exhibition to mark special anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe British Museum has launched a major exhibition to mark 200 years since the decipherment of...
Researchers Are Breaking Ancient Language Barriers With AI
Decrypt Media via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoDeciphering ancient languages and texts has been a challenge for archaeologists for generations....
A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
The Independent via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between...
‘Unusual’ writing on 4,000-year-old tablets decoded as lost language, study says
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoWith a wedge-shaped pen, a scribe sat down with a clay tablet and began writing. Dividing the tablet...
An ancient manuscript up for sale gives a glimpse into the history of early Christianity
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Crosby-Schoyen Codex at Christie's auction house in Paris. The manuscript goes up for auction in...