How were Egyptian hieroglyphs deciphered?
Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered in 1822 by French scholar Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone, which had the same text in three scripts.
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- Were there Viking women warriors?
“A 2017 DNA study found that a famous Viking warrior grave in Birka, Sweden, belonged to a woman.”
Reference: American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2017)
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