Sky Knowledge, Indigenous Solstice Observations and Ancient Seasonal Wisdom

Indigenous cultures across Australia, the Torres Strait and globally have maintained deep observational traditions around the solstices as part of living seasonal calendars. In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the alignment of sunrise and sunset at summer and winter solstices is carefully watched, serving as a signal to begin ceremonies, initiate seasonal food gathering,…

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The Rosetta Stone: Decoding the Secrets of Ancient Egypt

In 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign in Egypt, French engineer Pierre-François Bouchard unearthed a granodiorite slab near the town of Rosetta (modern-day Rashid). This artifact, later named the Rosetta Stone, bore inscriptions in three scripts: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The decree inscribed on the stone, dating to 196 B.C., praised the…

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The Forgotten Libraries of the Ancient World, Guardians of Lost Knowledge

Long before the digital age, ancient civilizations built grand libraries that preserved the foundations of science, philosophy, and literature. The Library of Alexandria is perhaps the most famous, but lesser-known collections like the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh and the Nalanda University library in India also played pivotal roles in shaping human thought. These institutions…

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