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...Visitors enter through pyramid-shaped portals surrounded by hieroglyphic inscriptions with the names of the country’s ancient rulers, and huge windows provide panoramic views of the Giza pyramids....
...He talked about how he was raising funds to restore numerous pieces, including the most ancient inscription in Italy, from the eighth century BC....
...Ancient Egyptian scribes sometimes jammed chunks of guff into inscriptions to hit their target wordage, just like sellside analysts and . . . er, OK, you got me — journalists....
...Sparing its users the need to memorise all 10,000 characters that Egyptian hieroglyphics had acquired by 100CE, the effect on literacy was dramatic....
...“Hey kids, who wants to read about the ancient Egyptians?...
...Ancient texts and inscriptions had suggested the existence of lost cities near the mouth of the Nile but their exact location was unknown....
...I had never even known of this item’s existence, formerly in the Golitsyn family collection, but it shows an incredible rarity, an Egyptian inscription contemporary with Alexander himself....
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