Champollion did not just decipher a writing system: he uncovered one of the oldest written languages in human history. This achievement revealed how the Egyptians measured time, organised the year, and commemorated ancestors – or erased them from history. A wealth of written sources confirms a deep appreciation by the ancient Egyptians for their past. Spirituality and the afterlife

Plain English guide (PDF) provides a description of 12 key objects from the exhibition in plain English. You won’t be able to sublet this home or enter a part exchange deal on your old home. You must not own any other property at the time you buy your new home with a Help to Buy: Equity Loan.Mesmerising new stories of a sprawling ancient multicultural society with colonial ambitions became accessible with the decipherment of hieroglyphs. Travellers and traders from the ancient Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent came to Egypt, bringing their languages and cultures with them. Some left a profound and lasting impression on Egyptian culture and its writing system. But it was the introduction of Greek that would eventually lead towards the abandonment of ancient Egyptian scripts. The concept of time

I think we see the beginnings of a realisation that mathematics is not about specific numbers, about specific problems; that you can extract from it general procedures, general rules, that you can follow in lots of cases." (Clive Rix) Investing in heritage means investing in the community it belongs to, which is why we are proud to support Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to restore and regenerate many of the City’s historic buildings and provide an activity programme to increase engagement with heritage through the Townscape Heritage Initiative.” Making papyrus is laborious but in fact, quite straightforward. The plant itself - a kind of reed that can grow to about 15 feet (or 4.5m) high - was plentiful in the Nile Delta. The pith of the plant is sliced into strips, which are soaked and pressed together to form sheets - very conveniently, the organic fibres of papyrus were meshed together without needing glue, and the sheets are then dried and rubbed smooth with a stone.

The access between the main stairwell and the four-storey lean-to extension will be rationalised and a rooflight will be provided to allow light to flood the stairwell again. Up to 15 iconic buildings are being sympathetically restored across the city centre under a five-year Townscape Heritage scheme in a partnership project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council and the buildings’ owners. The Rhind Papyrus certainly gives us no sense of maths as an abstract discipline through which the world can be conceived and contemplated anew. But it does let us glimpse - and share - the daily headaches of an Egyptian administrator. Like all civil servants, he seems to be looking anxiously over his shoulder at the National Audit Office, eager to ensure that he is getting value for money. So there are calculations about how many gallons of beer, or how many loaves of bread, you should be able to get from a given amount of grain, and how to calculate whether the beer or the bread that you've been paying for has been adulterated.

Help to Buy is available to help those who can’t quite afford the mortgage on 100% of a home and offers the chance to buy a share of your home with the rest paid for by a loan from the Government. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, " Of Dwarves and Men", p. 301

It owes its name to an Aberdeen lawyer, Alexander Rhind, who in the 1850s took to wintering in Egypt because the dry heat helped his tuberculosis. There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world.