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☆ 'Aladdin' turns 30: Alan Menken on the journey of an animated classic
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

To mark the occasion, eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken, who nabbed two statuettes for his work on the movie, spoke with CNN about his memories from the making of the prescient classic. Alan Menken, composer: “Aladdin” was started almost simultaneously with “(The Little) Mermaid.” While we were still working on “Mermaid,” we had started “Aladdin,” had a whole take on it and it was shelved. We’re winking at everything and making fun.” We were making fun of a genre, but making fun of a genre clearly can bleed over to making fun of a people. Alan Menken, seen here this month, spoke to CNN about his memories of working on the animated 'Aladdin.' Alan Menken, lower right, with Ron Clements and John Musker and behind the scenes on 'Aladdin' in 1992.

☆ The Rosetta Stone’s Best Home Is the British Museum
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The British Museum in London is among the world’s greatest, alongside the Louvre in Paris and the Met in New York City. Like its peers, it’s sometimes embroiled in scandals over the provenance of its artifacts. This week’s scandal concerns the jewel in the British Museum’s curatorial crown, the Rosetta Stone. It contains a decree written in Greek, ancient Egyptian demotic script, and hieroglyphs. This allowed Jean-François Champollion to decipher the latter in 1822, after decades of cooperative (and competitive) effort by scholars across Europe—an achievement the museum is now marking with a bicentennial exhibition.

☆ 2,600-year-old pots of cheese found at the ancient necropolis of Egypt's pharaohs
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The cheese was found inside pottery excavated at the vast Saqqara necropolis near Cairo. Excavators uncovered several artifacts with Demotic script – the ancient Egyptian writing also seen on the Rosetta Stone. The Egyptian Antiquities Mission has been excavating the Saqqara necropolis since 2018. It contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty and pharaohs and the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser. The site, a village in Giza about 15 miles south of Cairo, has Egypt's oldest pyramid and one of its largest archeological sites.

☆ Comori antice care au fost furate și încă nu au fost returnate în țările lor de origine
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-02 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +5 min

La scurt timp de la descoperire, celebra piatră a fost trimisă în Anglia pentru a fi descifrată de egiptologi și a rămas la British Museum din Londra încă din 1802. Comoara lui Priam, TurciaUn tezaur de aur, cupru, scuturi, arme și alte artefacte a fost descoperit în anii 1870 de către arheologul german Heinrich Schliemann. Cunoscută și sub numele de aurul troian, comoara a fost dată între 2600 și 2450 î.Hr. și a fost găsită în locul în care se credea că ar fi existat vechea Troia, în prezent nord-vestul Turciei. La fel ca multe artefacte, a fost trimisă ilegal în străinătate pentru a fi expusă în muzeele europene.

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