Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt by Ilona Regulski The British Museum

Hieroglyphsunlocking ancient Egypt\nAuthor(s): Ilona Regulski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: British Museum Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: British Museum Press\nISBN-13: 9780714191294, 978-0714191294\nSynopsis\nToday the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman Empire to the 19th century, the wonders of this ancient civilisation were frozen in time, locked in artefacts that could not be understood due to the loss of the ancient Egyptian language. In 1799 the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a slab inscribed in three scripts, hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek, changed the course of history, unlocking thousands of years of ancient culture and eventually becoming one of the worlds most famous museum artefacts.\n\nThe British Museums exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt and this accompanying publication tell the story of the Rosetta .