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Days That Shook the World

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For seven years British archaeologist Howard Carter excavated in the Valley of the Kings, convinced it had secrets to yield. On 26 November 1922, it did: the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb. Plus how French academic Jean Francois Champollion cracked the code of the Rosetta Stone in 1822.

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