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So, I visited two of the holiest sites in cryptography (as well
as philology and computer science) this weekend.

Brit

• Egypt
  
  
  
  • alot of dead people and their grave goods
  
  
  • information on hieroglyphics, and later writings
    (demotic? )
  
  
  • the Rosetta Stone, proof the hieroglyphs
    were language and greatest crib in ancient language (argue?)
  
  
  
  


• Celtic Britain


• Roman Britain


• Medievil(sp) Europe


• Reading Room
  
  
  
  • a fantastic library in a huge dome-topped atrium
    building in the middle of the Great Courtyard
  
  
  • primary collection is accessible to the public:
    just find and sit down to read
  
  
  • a few (Dell) workstations running the museum's
    

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