Myths & mysteries
Athanasius Kircher failed at hieroglyphs
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Long before the Rosetta Stone made translation easy, this wildly confident polymath decided ancient Egyptian symbols were purely mystical, non-linguistic codes. He published massive, beautiful translations of obelisks that were 100 percent completely wrong. He turned mundane ancient tax receipts into profound cosmic poetry.
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