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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- How did silk-making spread outside China?
“China kept silk-making a secret for centuries until monks reportedly smuggled silkworm eggs to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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