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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...
3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoResearchers think a sacred language inscribed in cuneiform on the tablet suggest the Hittite king...
Why reading to kids in Arabic presents parents a unique challenge
CBS News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoHow far would you go to read to your kids? A mother in New York struggling with the complexities of...
What did Cleopatra, Egypt's last pharaoh, really look like?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra. Cleopatra VII may have been the most famous woman in the...
18th- and 19th-century Americans of all races, classes and genders looked to the ancient...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a new land, the ancient past held special meaning. 'Temple of Aphaea, Aegina' by John Rollin...
What the Romans and Bob Dylan had to say about corn | Plant Lovers' Almanac
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI gave talks last week in Columbus at the Ohio State University’s green industry short course, which...
Tens of thousands march in London calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTens of thousands of people turned out on central London's streets Saturday for a pro-Palestinian...
November Is Here, and With It 62 Sparkling New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe’ve got a huge crop of new books for November, whether you’re looking for space adventures,...
Gay icon Margaret Anderson was a freethinker whose life echoed the words of Joyce’s Molly Bloom
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn an August day in 1915, Margaret Anderson gave Tribune readers an account of the simple life she was experiencing, though not exactly of her own volition. A landlord had evicted her from the ...