Egypt exhibition in Wales

COPTIC (ETC.) WATCH: Wrexham Museum reveals the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Famous British Museum collection set to kick off tour in North Wales's largest town (STEVE BAGNALL, Daily Post).

Ilona Regulski, the British Museum’s curator of Egyptian Written Culture, said: “Ancient Egypt has produced an astonishing variety of written material representing indigenous as well as foreign languages.

“No other culture has yielded such a rich variety of inscribed objects and nowhere else have they been so well preserved.”

Ms Regulski said the exhibition WRITING FOR ETERNITY: Decoding Ancient Egypt illustrates 4,000 years of writing in Egypt presenting ancient hieroglyphs next to Coptic, Greek, Arabic and Nubian documents.

She added: “Familiar objects, such as papyrus and stone, alternate with surprising artefacts such as the scribe’s pen and pieces of jewellery.”