"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," the classic children's book by British author Beatrix Potter has been translated into ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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The translation by the British Museum turns the mischievous Peter Rabbit rabbit into symbols of a square, a semi-circle, an ellipse and a rabbit image, the BBC reported.

The classic tale has been translated into 35 languages and museum translators Richard Parkinson and John Nunn said it seemed time for the hieroglyph version, even though Potter's landscape would have been unfamiliar to ancient Egyptians, who had no words for blackberry, gooseberry, blackcurrant and potato.

"Beatrix Potter's words sometimes do not readily fall into ancient Egyptian," Parkinson and Nunn wrote in the foreword.

"The surviving texts provide no easy model for such colloquial phrases as 'Now run along, and don't get into mischief.'"