Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Salisbury (BM) exhibition on ancient Egyptian writing

COPTIC (ETC.) WATCH: British Museum touring exhibition comes to Salisbury Museum.
DISCOVER the secrets of Ancient Egypt at Salisbury Museum.

A British Museum touring exhibition, Writing for Eternity: Decoding Ancient Egypt, opens on Saturday.

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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.”

She said the exhibition presents the ancient hieroglyphs next to Coptic, Greek, Arabic and Nubian documents.

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This exhibition was running in Wales last year at this time.