The Rosetta Stone (羅塞塔石碑) is a broken part of a bigger stone slab (a thick plate). It has a message carved (刻) into it, written in three types of writing (called scripts). It was an important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs (象形文字 [ˋhaiərəglif] a writing system that used pictures as signs).
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One year ago a man took a pneumatic drill (風鑽) to the statue of a winged bull at the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh (古代亞述重鎮), near Mosul (摩蘇爾) in modern Iraq. It's one of countless treasures destroyed by vandals (蓄意破壞者) , militants or military action in the region in the past 15 years.
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展覽有為香港人熟悉、來自日本浮世繪版畫家葛飾北齋最著名的傑作《神奈川沖浪裏》，畫作呈現出北齋對當時歐洲的透視法有所鑽研，前景的波濤看似將要吞噬水平線上的富士山。
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Iznik border
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The Lewis Chessmen
十二世紀時以海象牙雕刻的西洋棋棋子
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