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The Rosetta Stone: Curating Language, Power, and Return
It sits under glass, lit like a sacred relic. But it is neither jewel nor idol.The Rosetta Stone is a legal decree from 196 BCE, written in three scripts: Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Ancient Greek. Its message? A rather mundane tribute to King Ptolemy V. Its impact? Revolutionary. Because when French scholar Jean-François Champollion deciphered it in 1822, he opened the door to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and thereby reawakening an entire cultural heritage lost to ti
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Preserving Endangered Languages Through Museum Exhibits
Every two weeks, the world loses another language. With it disappears a unique worldview, a cultural memory, and a living connection to...
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