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Unlocking the language of the pharaohs
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London, UK (Times): As with Mandarin, there is pleasure to be derived from looking at the exquisite pictographs of the Ancient Egyptians, irrespective of whether one has the foggiest notion of what they mean. But there’s an even more thrilling quality about hieroglyphs. It’s that they look less like a dead language than a secret code, full of oddly familiar yet inscrutable signs which, we feel sure, hold the answers to centuries of riddles.
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