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.
In a This Day in History video, learn that on July 19, 1799, the Rosetta Stone unlocked the language of the pharaohs. For 14,000 years, no one had been able to read Egyptian hieroglyphs until Napoleon's army stumbled upon a clue: a 4x2 tablet with three languages inscribed on it.he Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum in London since 1802, except for a brief period during World War I. At that time, museum officials moved it to a separate underground location, along with other irreplaceable items from the museumâs collection, to protect it from the threat of bombs.