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Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis’ Tombstone

alishpagda08@gmail.com3 months ago07 mins

The arrangements for the funeral of Pope Francis were meticulous, and the ceremony drew a global audience. But it is the arrangement of the letters on his tombstone that are now attracting outsize attention. The simple slab has only 10 letters, but the spacing between them can make it read like “F R A NCISC…

Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh Is Unearthed in Egypt

alishpagda08@gmail.com4 months ago09 mins

Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in the second discovery of a king’s tomb this year. The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos,…