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 was the Templo Mayor found?
“The Aztec Templo Mayor was rediscovered in 1978 after electrical workers in Mexico City found a giant carved stone.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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What city was Mexico City built on top of?
Mexico City is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital founded in 1325 on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Were the pyramids built by slaves?
Archaeologists now believe the pyramids were built by paid Egyptian laborers rather than slaves, based on workers' tombs and villages discovered near Giza in the 1990s.