this comprehensive volume makes ancient history accessible and entertaining. The British Museum’s collection of Egyptian antiquities, which comprises nearly 100,000 objects, is the largest and ...

The British Museum reveals a fascinating collection of ancient artifacts that push the boundaries of historical understanding ...

The British ... objects can be housed. The Grand Egyptian Museum has been under construction for well over a decade and there have been repeated delays to its opening. Egypt’s plethora of ...

Nearly 200 years after the Rosetta Stone was deciphered, unlocking the key to understanding Ancient ... display at the British Museum since 1802, and the former colonizers of Egypt really don ...

CAIRO (AP) — The debate over who owns ancient ... British Museum: The Rosetta Stone. The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient ...

which enabled the decipherment of ancient Egyptian texts. As the British Museum’s most important single object and one that played a key role in translation and understanding Egyptian ...

An innovative display of British Museum artefacts ... to be overseen by the museum’s new director Nicholas Cullinan. The Ancient Egypt spaces will be refurbished, among other areas of the ...

But some museums in Britain are now using words other than "mummy" to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian ... the department for Egypt and Sudan at London's British Museum, told CNN.

brought the object into the Museum for identification. In 1984, schoolboys found another ancient treasure - an Egyptian bronze figurine of a man - using a metal detector, and brought it into the ...