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The Rosetta Stone

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Short History of Abraham Lincoln

The significance of the Rosetta Stone is so bound up with its modern history regrettable as that colonialist modern history is. The Bibliotheca Alexandrino would be a wonderful home for this fragment of text which has somehow come to represent not only the translatability of every culture, but also the endurance of the Egyptian textual tradition. In the next episode of Short History of we'll bring you a short history of Abraham Lincoln.

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