Chess is a game played by two people on a chessboard, with sixteen pieces of six types for each player. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The goal of the game is to checkmate â that is, to threaten the opponent's king with inevitable capture.
Inscriptions on the Done of the Rock, Jerusalem. Because research was done via Internet, to demonstrate accuracy, two translations are provided. The first translation can be found on an Islamic website and the second can be found on the site of a history professor at the University of Victoria, Canada.
By Simon Singh. Last updated 2011-02-17. For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology unravelled the secrets of the script.