Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient...
A long afternoon: Opposition, enmity, and Egyptian hieroglyphs In the summer of 1828, the natural scientist and physician Thomas Young spent an afternoon with Jean-Fran莽ois Champollion, the scholar who, six years earlier, had announced a system for reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, considerably complicating Young鈥檚 ...Read More
