A scroll. Part of which was transcribed when it was first found. Here is the transcription.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:37:59.286 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Then, Ardeth Bay, au revoir. But we must see each other again.
- An unusual crime. A guard killed by a man who left a gift to the museum.
- A gift?
- A scroll. Part of which was transcribed when it was first found. Here is the transcription.
- I cannot read the writing of a period so remote.
- But you read the name of Anck-es-en-Amon on that piece of pottery.
- That was of the 18th Dynasty.
- These are Predynastic ideographs.
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