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Close view of the dark grey Rosetta Stone, with rows of carved hieroglyphs at the top and dense lines of Demotic script below

History13 October 2026· 7 min read

How Was the Rosetta Stone Decoded?

A broken slab of granodiorite found by French soldiers in 1799 carried the same decree in three scripts. Turning that into the key to ancient Egypt took a race between two rival geniuses and a flash of insight in Paris in 1822.

The three tiled madrasas of the Registan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan

History10 October 2026· 5 min read

By Sushant Kataria

Was the Silk Road Actually a Road?

The name is barely 150 years old, and the reality was a shifting web of caravan trails and sea lanes that carried paper, religions, technologies and plague between China, India, Persia and Europe.