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Some of the Inventor boxes included
Front left: Orrville and Wilbur Wright box included airplane model.
Front right: Earle Dickson, Band-Aid inventor, included a metal Band-Aid box and a plaster cast hand adorned with Band-Aids.
Rear left: Johann Gutenberg with model of printing press.
Rear right: Louis Pasteur with a carton of "pasteurized" Dairyman's milk.
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Jaime Monroy becomes a patented inventor. He is approached to market a sterling silver photo locket. He remembers when he was a kid seeing the photo locket made by the Artisans in Mexico. He re-designs the latches to secure the locket to open and close more firmly, and added engraved designs and precious stones.
Egypt, black steatite
664–525 BC, Egypt, glazed composition
747–30 BC, Egypt, bronze
The patron god of writing, thinking and learning was Thoth, the moon deity. His name means ‘the one of the ibis’ and he could be depicted as an ibis or a man with an ibis head, possibly because the curve of the beak resembles the crescent moon. Sometimes, he was also depicted as a baboon holding up the moon. The Greeks associated him with Hermes, and eventually with Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary inventor of writing.
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Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt
(October 2022 - February 2023)
For centuries, life in ancient Egypt was a mystery.
We could only glimpse into this hidden world, until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone provided the key to decoding hieroglyphs, allowing us to read this ancient script. The breakthrough expanded our understanding of human history by some 3,000 years.
Marking 200 years since the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, this major exhibition took visitors through the trials and hard work that preceded, and the revelations that followed, this ground-breaking moment.
Hieroglyphs were not just beautiful symbols, they represented a living, spoken language. From romantic poetry and international treaties, to shopping lists and tax returns, the hieroglyphic inscriptions and ancient handwriting in this exhibition revealed stories that are fantastically varied. As well as an unshakeable belief in the power of the pharaohs and the promise of the afterlife, ancient Egyptians enjoyed good food, writing letters and making jokes.
The show charted the race to decipherment, from initial efforts by medieval Arab travellers and Renaissance scholars to more focussed progress by French scholar Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) and England’s Thomas Young (1773–1829). The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, with its decree written in hieroglyphs, demotic and the known language of ancient Greek, provided the key to decoding the ancient signs. The results of the 1822 breakthrough proved staggering.
Using inscriptions on the very objects that Champollion and other scholars studied, this immersive exhibition helped visitors to unlock one of the world’s oldest civilisations.
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