After all those years we are finally getting back to our roots. Less than 200 years ago Champollion cracked the hieroglyphics, and now a population of the supposedly extinct northern bald ibis is found.
The birds will get satellite tracking devices, so one will be able to tell where they migrate to. These clever birds have presumably migrated for thousands of years, and no one has yet figured out where to.
I get so jealous. Why doesn't anyone give me a satellite tracking device? On the other hand I have something the northern bald ibis doesn't have. I have hair. Not much perhaps, but some.
(To say that Champollion cracked the hieroglyphics is of course an over simplification, like all well known facts. Before him there had been several people around who had made some correct guesses, notably Thomas Young, and many people have since added and contributed to the knowledge of that script. I thought I'd just mention that, so you don't think there are things you know, which are true.)
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