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Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by kweingar on Thursday September 29, 2022 @07:05PM (#33028546)
Headlines pretty much always use the historical present tense.

If this is incorrect, then so is the entire front page of the New York Times today, e.g. "Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown" (should it be "passed"?)

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Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by IncRnd on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:46AM (#33032139)
That's not true, and certainly not true enough to make such sweeping generalizations.

From the actual New York Times regarding their editing standards for writing headlines: [1]

  Headlines are written in the historical present
  tense. That means they written are in present
  tense but describe events that just happened.
  The exception to that is when you're reporting
  on something that happened quite some time
  ago."
The Rosetta Stone wasn't just deciphered.

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general...

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