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.
Just a block of stone. Yet on it lay the clue to breaking a code that baffled scholars for centuries: Egyptian hieroglyphs. This fragment was found at el-Rashid (Rosetta) in Egypt, hence its modern name: the Rosetta Stone. It was dug up in 1799 by French soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte, who were enlarging a fort.