Anthony Rota expresses ‘profound regret’ over invitation to Yaraslov Hunka as pressure mounts on Trudeau to apologize
This spring, many Canadians– a total solar eclipse! The celestial event, taking place on April 8, 2024, is the opportunity of a lifetime. Beginning in Ontario and travelling east to Newfoundland, the path of totality will hit many Canadian cities for upwards of three minutes.Notes by Jean-Francois Champollion, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, about the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone.
Ever since Napoleon’s army dug it up in 1799, the stone – inscribed with a proclamation in ancient Egyptian’s hieroglyphic script, its Demotic shorthand and Greek – had given scholars hope that the third script, which they knew, could decipher the other two. A key question had to be answered: Did hieroglyphs each represent ideas, words or their component sounds? Champollion favoured ideas, since there were hundreds of hieroglyphs – too many for one alphabet.
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