Monday, 3 February 2014

LONDON - British Museum - EGYPTIAN STUFF!



This Ancient Egyptian mummy still has hair. Can you see it?

The most famous exhibit in the British Museum was the Rosetta Stone, pictured above. This artifact, uncovered in 1799, enabled modern archaeologists to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. It included lines of hieroglyphs, Greek text, and Latin text, all with the same meaning.

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