Tristan Hughes
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Well, alphabet feels like the word that should not be spoken.
It's a massive amount of different symbols in this ancient language, which the ancient Egyptians knew.
And so if we continue from there, in regards to another word that I think we'll be talking about quite a bit as we go to the deciphering story, cartouche.
What is this and how does this also fit into the Hegelian?
All right, well, let's delve into this deciphering story and how the Rosetta Stone fits into that whole narrative then, now, Ilona.
So we've got to the French rediscovering the Rosetta Stone when they are in Egypt in the late 18th, early 19th centuries.
So how does the Rosetta Stone therefore end up in London at the British Museum?
It's interesting because we always think of the Rosetta Stone as that object that comes to the British Museum.
But as you mentioned there, that's just one of 22 objects.
There are other objects which also come to the British Museum.
I'm not going to test you on every single one.
Let's not ruin the surprise of what it actually is once hieroglyphs are deciphered.
We'll get to that, won't we, in a bit.
And it's that alongside the Rosetta Stone.