The discovery of this commodity in southern Sudan sparked the independence movement that eventually led to the division of the country:

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The discovery of this commodity in southern Sudan sparked the independence movement that eventually led to the division of the country. We are talking about oil.

South Sudan is a complex place. It has many different people from Africa. That diversity has been the cause of some conflicts. South Sudan became independent from Sudan until July 2011, after so much struggle and conflicts. A precious natural resource as oil was the reason for so many conflicts.

One could think that after South Sudan gained independence, things started to go well. But unfortunately for them, That was not the case. In 2013, the country started a civil war.

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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