Hieroglyphics

September 10, 2006
Filed under: en, linguistics 

In Turin, I spent a couple of hours visiting the Egyptian Museum, the largest outside Egypt (that is, better that the British Museum).

It was a fantastic experience – it was so huge and so comprehensive that I got a strong feeling of a lost world, and I left impressed and depressed.

Perhaps the most depressing bit was the huge amounts of Egyptian texts in hieroglyphics. If only I had studied a bit of Egyptian with Tine and Rasmus when I was still at university, I might have been able to understand a bit… :-(

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3 Responses to “Hieroglyphics”

  1. Phyl on September 12th, 2006 19:55

    Marcel would love that!

  2. Thomas on September 12th, 2006 20:24

    What would he love? Going to the museum in Turin, or learning to read Egyptian, or both? If the latter, I can teach him it – I have a very good coursebook (the one they used at my university).

  3. Phyl on September 13th, 2006 10:01

    both!

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