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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
4 dic 2025Tempo di lettura: 2 min
The Kremlin: Curating the Architecture of Power
High walls. Gold domes. Towers that pierce the Moscow sky like declarations. Inside: palaces of czars, cathedrals of saints, and chambers...
29 set 2025Tempo di lettura: 3 min
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