The Rosetta Stone Is Discovered by Napoleonic Soldiers
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The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 by a member of Napoleon's Egyptian expeditionary force. The Stone is a stela fragment ca...
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The Rosetta Stone: the Key to Ancient Egypt
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The Rosetta Stone was found in Egypt in 1799. Inscribed upon it was the same text in hieroglyphs, another Egyptian form of writing called demotic, ...
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Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone and a bust of Nefertiti.The country's chief archaeologis...
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Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.Zahi Hawass rattled world muse...
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The largest ever loan of artifacts from China's famed Terracotta Army is on its way to London.The 120 items include 20 life-sized clay statues of warriors, acrobats and musicians, along with weapon...
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Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Good Grief, Charles Schulz.
The creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip was a shy,
lonely man who used his child-like drawings to depict a life of
deep melancholy, accor...
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From a cell phone with just six buttons to one that lets users dictate text messages and another that delivers the results of a breathalyzer test, mobile handset makers put their most eye-catching ...
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Berlin (dpa) - Demands by Cairo for Berlin to hand over the famed
bust of 18th Dynasty Queen Nefertiti have spawned a raging debate in
Germany over whether the 3,300-year-ol...
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Walking west on 22nd Street, heading toward the Robert Gober show at Matthew Marks Gallery, I caught sight of what looked to be a diptych in the window of the D'Amelio Terras Gallery-two canvases, ...
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The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, by Steven Gaines. Little, Brown and Company, 271 pages, $26.95.
Real-estate gossip is the fuel of dinner-party banter between obsessed Manha...
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The Rosetta Stone Is Discovered by Napoleonic Soldiers
Egypt seeks loans of overseas artifacts
