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Related content for the gallery "Enlightenment: Ancient scripts"

Related highlight objects

  • A letter from Thomas Young about hieroglyphs
  • A poem on papyrus
  • Babylonian brick
  • Brick with Sanskrit inscription
  • Champollion's hieroglyphic hand
  • Chinese seals
  • Coins from the Tigris hoard
  • General Claude-Auguste Court's book of coin rubbings
  • Head of Pazuzu
  • Reproductions of the Gallehus Horns
  • Silver disc brooch of Ædwen
  • Statue of the priest Henat
  • The Fenton Vase
  • The Ruthwell Cross, illustrated in Itinerarium Septentrionale by Alexander Gordon
  • Tiles from the Alhambra

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  • Enlightenment Europe

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