and tools—inscribed in the ancient Egyptian language, using one of its four scripts: hieroglyphic, hieratic, Demotic, or Coptic. Each example includes the inscription's translation, description ...

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Hawawshi makes a smashing debut in my unofficial catalog of Spectacular Sandwiches of the World. Cumin, coriander, allspice, ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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Y ou have likely heard the expression “the dog days of summer” and may even use it from time to time, but do you know what ...

A key moment in Christianity, Islam and Judaism which requires a certain amount of faith to believe could have happened - now ...

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All religious scriptures have something to say.” Author Benyamin, who won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2018 for his book, ...

Entire worlds exist in languages. If you don’t know the language, you might physically be there, but you’re not really there. You’re like a ghost floating on the surface.

Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one of opera’s true classics, Aida. This production reimagines the setting in an African futurist time and landscape.