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POPSMan becomes talented artist after brain-surgery more: She looked at it and asked me if I was an artist. I said no and she said I should look into doing a course. Since then I've never looked back.' I had never even set foot in an art gallery, let alone tried creating my own art work.' Alan, who has three children, Joshua, 16, Ellie, 10 and Maisy, eight, is now about to graduate from Worcester university with a Fine Art Degree. He has also decided to open his own art gallery in Malvern after turning his back on selling double-glazing.
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POPSDecoding Antiquity: Eight Scripts... in 1823, they extended the span of recorded history by around 2000 years and allowed us to read the words of Ramses the Great. The decipherment of the Mayan glyphs revealed that the New World had a sophisticated, literate civilisation at the time of the Roman empire. So how do you decipher an unknown script? There are two minimum requirements. First, there has to be enough material to work with. Secondly, there must be some link to a known language. It helps enormously if there is a bilingual inscription or identifiable proper names - the Rosetta Stone (see image), for example, is written in both ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek, and also contains the name of the Ptolemy dynasty. If there is no clear link, an attempt must be made to relate the concealed language to a known one.
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POPS2065: Planet Earth Just a little of an interesting article. We really have made a mess of things, but the scientists proved correct on this occasion.
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