What was the key to the decipherment of the Egyptian system of writing?
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs—a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts. What were ancient Egyptian scripts called? The Egyptian cursive script, called hieratic writing, received its name…
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