{"id":132,"date":"2006-09-10T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=132"},"modified":"2006-09-10T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T18:07:00","slug":"hieroglyphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/hieroglyphics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hieroglyphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Turin, I spent a couple of hours visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museoegizio.it\/pages\/hp_en.jsp\">Egyptian Museum<\/a>, the largest outside Egypt (that is, better that the British Museum).<\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic experience &ndash; it was so huge and so comprehensive that I got a strong feeling of a lost world, and I left impressed and depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most depressing bit was the huge amounts of Egyptian texts in hieroglyphics.  If only I had studied a bit of Egyptian with Tine and Rasmus when I was still at university, I might have been able to understand a bit&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Turin, I spent a couple of hours visiting the Egyptian Museum, the largest outside Egypt (that is, better that the British Museum). It was a fantastic experience &ndash; it was so huge and so comprehensive that I got a strong feeling of a lost world, and I left impressed and depressed. Perhaps the most depressing bit was the huge amounts of Egyptian texts in hieroglyphics. If only I had studied a bit of Egyptian with Tine and Rasmus when I was still at university, I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}