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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- When was the Indus Valley civilization discovered?
“The Indus Valley civilization was identified by archaeologists in the 1920s.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Has the Indus script been deciphered?
The Indus Valley script has never been deciphered.
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.