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Cracking the Rosetta Stone
Backtrack History
English - November 28, 2017 00:51 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsEducation american history today world Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ancient Egypt, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, was a total mystery to historians. For 1400 years, the ability to understand hieroglyphs had been lost to the world. So while they were surrounded by 3000 years of records, historians couldn't read them. But in a chain of events that involved Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, a stone was discovered that would prove to be the key to Egypt's ancient secrets. And two bitter rivals set off on a race to turn the key first.