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The Bulletin
Fix this textBeginning "Freedom Is a Rainbow”
Fix this textWednesday, June 19, 1957
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Fix this textTHE NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER
Fix this textRegistered in Australia for transmission by post as a newspaper.
Fix this textOVER a million people each year visit the British Museum in
Fix this textLondon—one of the world's great treasure houses, and one
Fix this textwhich is unrivalled for the richness and variety of its contents.
Fix this textThis vast collection began wilh a public lottery in the 18th
Fix this text; century which provided funds for the purchase of manuscripts
Fix this text. collected by Sir Mans Sloane and Robert Harley. Subsequent
Fix this textadditions included the famous Elgin Maibles and the Egyptian
Fix this textantiquities which arc housed in several great galleries. In one of
Fix this textthese, on the ground floor, and illustrated here, is the granite hear!,
Fix this textnine feet high, and an arm of a colossal statue of Thof limes 111, who
Fix this textreigned in Egypt about the year 1550 b.c. \
Fix this textIn the Egyptian galleries are displayed more than a thousand
Fix this textpieces of sculpture which represent the work of artists over a period
Fix this text*of 4,000 years. Pharaohs, priests, chancellors, scribes, librarians,
Fix this textoverseers and all the life of ancient Egypt are represented here in
Fix this textone; form or another.
Fix this textOne of the most important exhibits is the famous Rosetta Stone,
Fix this texthearing inscriptions' that became the key to the meaning of a lost
Fix this textlanguage and unlocked the history of ancient Egypt which previously
Fix this texthad been a closed book. The stone is a large slab of black basalt
Fix this textand it was discovered by a chance stroke with a pick by one of
Fix this textNapoleon’s soldiers in 1798. He was demolishing a wall of a fort
Fix this textin the small village of Rosetta at the mouth of the Nile when his
Fix this textpick dislodged the stone which he noticed bore inscriptions of three
Fix this textdifferent kinds. When deciphered it was discovered that the writing
Fix this textwas a decree in Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs, issued in
Fix this text197-19(1 8.c., during the reign of Ptolemy V. The first man to
Fix this text•grasp the meaning of hieroglyphics was Dr. Thomas Youtm, of
Fix this textSomerset, who guessed that, like shorthand, the characters "were
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Fix this textStone proved to be remarkably correct.
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