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Tomb treasures

Life after death

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Secrets of the Egyptiansands

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This was found on the wall

of a tomb in Egyt!

"hat do you think it is#

$ ainting# %e&ret &ode# "riting#

't might look more like a style of ainting( but it is an&ient

Egytian writing( whi&h we &all hieroglyphics!

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But in 17**( some +ren&h

soldiers found a ,ery imortant

clue- the Rosetta Stone!

There were three different

languages &ar,ed into thestone!

.ieroglyhi&s

/emoti&

$n&ientreek

"hat do you think &ould be worked out from looking

at these languages#

"hen hieroglyhi&s were first dis&o,ered by archaeologists(

nobody knew what they were!

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$ man &alled Thomas 3oung saw that the an&ient reek words

were about 4haraoh 4tolemy! This heled him to work out whatthe hieroglyhi&s with an o,al shae( or cartouche(

around them said!

P T O L E M Y

Then( a man &alled 5ean64aul Chamollion was able to use

Thomas 3oungs dis&o,ery to hel him work out an entire

Egytian alhabet

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$t last( historians &ould read the beautiful hieroglyhi&s in

Egyt! .ieroglyhi&s had been found in many la&es! Look atthese hotograhs-

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