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It remains shocking that from the people who invented the alphabet and by extension taught half the world to write, the Phoenicians, nothing of their literature has come down to us except for three fragments of papyrus. It is true that some 10,000 stone inscriptions and pottery fragments are preser
It is a very popular saying that history repeats itself, and another that no one stumbles twice on the same stone. To them should be added that you learn from history , and then it is quite unusual that up to three rulers from three different eras could have made the same mistake, seemingly learning
Jean François Champollion called Champollion the Younger ( 1790-1832 ), was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist. He said of himself: I am all of Egypt and Egypt is everything to me . He became famous for deciphering the Rosetta Stone , a slab of dark granite (often identified as basalt) o
MARIGNY (Enguerrand de) (Lyons-la-Forêt, circa 1260 - Paris, 1315.) Advisor to Philippe le Bel. Having come to the Court at a very young age, cultured and intelligent, Enguerrand de Marigny knew how to win the good graces of Philippe IV le Bel.The latters wife, Jeanne de Navarre, from whom he was na