The piece of land that connects egypt and what was once mesopotamia was formerly known as

The piece of land that connects Egypt and what was once Mesopotamia was formerly known as Canaan.

This area of land was found where Palestine and Israel and some others are found today. They were commonly referenced in the Bible as the Canaanites but existed historically. Greeks knew them as Phoenicians and when Canaan fell they moved towards northern Africa where many called them the Punics and similar names.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion