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  2. Names of the Mediterranean Sea - Wikipedia

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    In Classic Persian texts was called Daryāy-e Šām دریای شام) "The Western Sea" or "Syrian Sea". [8] In Modern Arabic, it is known as al-Baḥr [al-Abyaḍ] al-Mutawassiṭ (البحر [الأبيض] المتوسط) 'the [White] Middle Sea'. In Islamic and older Arabic literature, it was Baḥr al-Rūm (ī) (بحر الروم or بحر ...

  3. Yellow Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. Since November 1, 2018, the Yellow Sea has served as the location of "peace zones" between North and South Korea.

  4. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth ...

  5. Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized: Yāfō, pronounced [jaˈfo] ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized: Yāfā, pronounced [ˈjaːfaː]), also called Japho or Joppa in English, is an ancient Levantine port city now part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the Mediterranean ...

  6. Rosetta Stone - Wikipedia

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    Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.

  7. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    Other claims used to support the Black Hypothesis included anthropological measurements of Egyptian mummies, testing melanin levels in a small sample of mummies, [14]: 20, 37 [276] language affinities between ancient Egyptian language and sub-saharan languages, [14]: 28, 39–41, 54–55 [277] interpretations of the origin of the name Kmt ...

  8. Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated within the contemporary territory of modern-day Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political ...

  9. Egyptian language - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (r n km.t), [1] [note 3] [6] is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century.