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As you descend look for images of over 700 deities decorating the walls before reaching the chamber with its finely carved red sandstone sarcophagus; a royal cartouche (hieroglyphic name plate) above the lintel heralds your arrival.
Hieroglyphic cartouches are also popular remembrances — a jeweler can have your name made up into a cartouche of Egyptian letters in just a couple of days — choose from gold or silver.
The text is punctuated here and there by tables showing the progressive development of selected symbols (as, for example, in Sumerian), the Devanagari syllabary (in which several modern and ancient Indian languages are written), the Hebrew, Arabic, and other alphabets, Chinese and Japanese writing, and attractive drawings showing the hieroglyphic (with sound values in English orthography).
It covers 3,000 years of sculpture, papyrus fragments, and hieroglyphic tablets.
Room 3 holds the Phaistós Disc, a 16-cm- (6-inch-) diameter clay disc imprinted with hieroglyphic and geometric symbols that have yet to be deciphered.