A grandiose scandal with the deciphering of 4000-year-old writing ● Another secret of the pyramids falls ● Leave the phones, because you will grow old with them in your hands! ● People don’t even know when they are being sexually harassed

A grandiose scandal related to the decipherment of a 4,000-year-old writing

The decipherment of writing that is more than four millennia old should, as a rule, be positive news. I mean, you don’t do that every day. However, it seems that everything is not quite so.

It is about deciphering the linear Elamite script, which was used in southern Iran between 1800 BC. and 2300 BC At least this is what experts from France and Iran claim, who signed the study published in the specialized journal “Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology”. Well, what did these people do? They used eight silver vessels inscribed with Elamite texts, compared them with cuneiform writing that existed around the same time, and tried to identify the names of famous people of the time. Very similar to what Champollion did with Egyptian hieroglyphics.

It is said that they succeeded, that they deciphered 96.3% of the nearly 300 characters that make up the said writing, and that they can read almost all the texts of the time. So far so good.

The problem would be that the appellants appeared, even the heritage police. On the one hand, there is an opinion that some of the artifacts used may be fakes.

Like, they’ve deciphered it to the point where their writing doesn’t even look like Proto-Elamite, as it would normally be. On the other hand, the origin of others is discussed. That is, they come from two private collectors, an Iranian and a Norwegian, who have been investigated in the past for illegal trade in heritage items and all sorts of other shenanigans. Well, you got it. You want to do good and give in to others. Now, what would those guys have deciphered and what has yet to be deciphered by the police.

Another secret of the pyramids has been revealed

It seems that today is the day when we have interesting information more from the archaeological side. But it’s not bad at all. And look, some Egyptologists say in a study in PNAS that they’ve finally figured out how the ancient Egyptians transported huge stones, some weighing two tons each, from the Nile to the famous pyramids on the Giza plateau. Of course, but it was still about seven kilometers, enough to knock the soul out.

Well, it seems these Egyptians were smarter than some people think. More precisely, they dug a channel from the Nile to the horse’s face, that is, right next to the pyramids, where they brought stone blocks with vessels. Simple and effective. What was difficult was solved. From there, you just pick up rocks, throw them on the shore, and then straight to the pyramid.

To everyone’s delight, that channel was named Cheops (or Khufu), because that was the name of the pharaoh who ordered its construction… Cheops or Khufu. That the Egyptians performed a good deed, and not a rescue, is shown by the fact that the entire construction lasted about 1,200 years, until the time of Tutankhamun, when traces of the canal disappear. How many problems did this guy have, only artificial channels didn’t bother him anymore.

Ah, I forgot the technical part! How experts realized this discovery. Well, because of the polytechnic analysis of the sedimentary level of that period. It turned out that in the current desert there were once aquatic plants, some of which can still be found today on the banks of the Nile. And since the channel of the Nile is known where it was 4000 years ago, it follows that an artificial structure was added. With Tutankhamun, the area becomes arid, so… adios muchachos. Simple, right?

Leave your phones behind, because you’re growing old with them in hand!

If you haven’t reached the age of senility yet look like you’ve been mummified with Tutankhamun while talking about the news above, know that your phones are firing. Please, from phones, TVs, computers and other similar devices.

The exposure to the light emitted by said equipment ages your skin cells, sebum, woe to you what it does to you, we can’t even describe how horrified you are. But you got it. Some American researchers came to this conclusion in a study published in the journal Frontiers of Aging.

They did some tests on fruit flies, they say, Drosophila, and noticed that when they were exposed to a lot of this blue light, the flies looked like they were old and sick with Dumbbells, which is just like you when you sit for hours in a line with the phone in front of you. There is only one solution to these problems, and that is the one in the news headline.

People no longer even know when they are being sexually harassed

Most workers don’t realize they’re being sexually harassed at work, according to a study in the professional journal Personnel Psychology. The researchers who took on the case went around several American companies and presented employees with seven hypothetical cases that, in their opinion, would be tantamount to sexual harassment. As a result, only 6% correctly identified all cases, 25% identified no more than two, and the rest were somewhere in between.

Here are some helpful tips for people like HR who need to get more involved, help employees be aware, etc. The problem wouldn’t be that people can’t identify the cases they propose. The problem is that no one has any idea what can be included here or not. For example, the case of a 16-year-old athlete, whom her father took in his arms out of happiness and put his hand on her butt. I pray the coach did the same, but it seems a little more veiled. The community jumped on the bandwagon that this was lewd behavior.

Now you don’t even know what to say, because the problem is very complicated. If my son messed up last night when he was supposed to get spanked by his mother, does he still fall into that category? He was on the verge of it, but did not accept that he was also involved in domestic violence. Asked, did not give. I think I better talk to HR.