For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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The British archaeologist has been conducting field work with Egypt's antiquities minister after putting forth a theory locating Nefertiti's crypt Nicholas Reeves is leaning on the entrance to ...

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This script, invented by Canaanite workers at an Egyptian turquoise mine in the Sinai region, developed into the Phoenician alphabet, which later inspired the early Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets.