For six centuries, during its heyday - from 270 BC to 320 AD - it was a powerful state, but meroveyskaya culture still maloizuchena. More than anything known meroyskaya writing, which had been used and in Egypt, along with the hieroglyphic. Until recently, scientists knew how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet meroyskogo, but the language was nerasshiforvan. Now linguists have managed to draw parallels with certain languages Chvdv and Eritrea, and start translating texts in 2000, found arzheologami.
The exhibition gathered about 200 objects originating from the museum in Khartoum (Sudan), the British Museum, Berlin and Leiden museums, as well as from the collection of the Louvre.
The exhibition will be open until 6 th September 2010
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