Harpercollins, 2000 — 352 p. ISBN: 9780060194390 Jean-François Champollion's biography is neatly interwoven with Napoleonic history and the functions of Egyptian hieroglyphs in The Keys of Egypt. A gifted bookseller's son born in Revolutionary France, Champollion was to become gripped by energetic enthusiasm for Egypt. By the age of 12, he was studying several ancient...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0340794917. This is the book to make the basics of hieroglyphs truly easy to understand. Explaining briefly the history and development of the language, it then gives the Egyptian alphabet and shows how simple it is to spell your own name using hieroglyphs. In short this is the complete introduction for any visitor to Egypt, student of...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0340794917. This is the book to make the basics of hieroglyphs truly easy to understand. Explaining briefly the history and development of the language, it then gives the Egyptian alphabet and shows how simple it is to spell your own name using hieroglyphs. In short this is the complete introduction for any visitor to Egypt, student of...
Course Guidebook. — Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2016. — 270 p. — (The Great Courses). Ancient Egyptian civilization is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating chapters in human history. While remnants of the culture like temples, obelisks, and sarcophagi continue to mystify us, you can unlock their true meaning if you know how to read hieroglyphs. Professor...
Dover Publications, 2011. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-0486267241. Indispensable reference by noted Egyptologist contains every word of ancient Egyptian text, vital repository of Egyptian religious doctrine, grouped according to hieroglyphic symbols in the standard scholarly system of Roman alphabetization. A phonetic version and definition are provided for each word, along with a...
Oxford University Press, 1928. — 45 p. : ill. In two sizes, 18 point : 12 point, with intermediate forms. The forms are mainly derived from Eighteenth Dynasty originals copied in the tombs of Thebes by Mr. and Mrs. de Garis Davies. The matrices have been cut by Mr. W. J. Bilton of Messrs. Bannerman & Son, Ltd., with whom they are deposited by Dr. Alan H. Gardiner, their owner...
British Museum Press, 1998. — 179 p. — ISBN: 0714119105. Hieroglyphs are pictures used as signs in writing. When standing before an ancient tablet in a museum or visiting an Egyptian monument, we marvel at this unique writing and puzzle over its meaning. Now, with the help of Egyptologists Mark Collier and Bill Manley, museum-goers, tourists, and armchair travelers alike can...
Metropolitan Museum, 1988. — xiv + 68 p. The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide beginning students with step-by-step guidance in drawing hieroglyphs; and secondly, to supplement the observations of Gardiner in the Sign List at the back of his Egyptian Grammar. The examples include all 24 of the common forms of "alphabetic" (monoconsonantal) signs, and a selection of...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. — xxiv + 147 p. — (Egyptian studies, 2). "The purpose of the present volume is, first, to review the various situations which call for a reversal of the dominant orientation of hieroglyphic inscriptions, facing right and reading from right to left; and, secondly, to review those situations which call for a change in orientation...
Chicago, Illinois: Heinemann Library, 2003. — 48 p. — (Communicating). — ISBN: 1-58810-485-0. Discusses the hieroglyphic system of writing used by people of the ancient Egyptian civilization along the Nile River. Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Simple Hieroglyphic Signs. How Hieroglyphs Were Written. Determinatives. Plurals and Pairs. Ancient Egyptian Scripts. The Rosetta Stone. The...
A Plume Book, 2005. — 256 p. — eISBN 978-1-101-11772-9. Egyptian culture is divided from us by several millennia, a lost people and a dead language. We can discover much about this fascinating civilization from its physical remains, but perhaps the greatest insights into the Egyptian mind come from Egyptian hieroglyphs. They reveal the priorities, concerns and beliefs of the...
Independently published, 2022, 22 p. To those who could read them, Hieroglyphs was a sophisticated system of writing used for accounts, historical records, stories, love poetry, and, above all, magic spells. This introductory volume discusses the origin of Hieroglyphs, the structure of the language, and Phonetic, Uniliteral, Biliteral, and Triliteral Hieroglyphs. It covers the...
Museum Tours Press, 2013. — 140 p. This paperback version of the Hieroglyphic Sign List was developed as an outgrowth of our popular, pocket-sized Sign List book. By increasing its size we were able to overcome most of the limitations of the smaller book. It is not just a larger version of the spiral-bound book. It has been completely re-edited and updated. Definitions are more...
ILIM Press, 2023. — 130 p. This book deals with the basic linguistic principles of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in keeping with the various branches of modern linguistics. Moreover, a number of linguistic procedures of Egyptian hieroglyphs has been scrutinized and described concisely in this book. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been analyzed here as the assets of...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968. — 96 p. — ISBN: 0-690-04753-3. This book is an introduction to the fascinating realm of Egyptian hieroglyphs. It helps pull back the curtain which still partly shrouds the world of ancient Egypt in the mind of the general public. Close analyses of existing remains by language experts and scientists have shown that hieroglyphs — the unique...
Scottish Academic Press, 1981. — 168 p. Part I: General introduction and background to hieroglyphic writing in Egypt and to the principles of picture writing. Part II: Grammar, exercises and vocabularies.
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 130 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192805029; ISBN13: 9780192805027. Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. This ancient form of expression was used as art, as a means of identifying...
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. — 168 p. He hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt have fascinated people for over three thousand years. In this engaging new study, Penelope Wilson offers a wide-ranging look at this ancient form of writing, touching on everything from basic principles of translation to its broader function in Egyptian culture. Sacred Signs illuminates...
Thames & Hudson, 1992. — 140 p. Hieroglyphs, the ingenious picture writing of the ancient Egyptians, are not only a beautiful and fascinating record of a bygone civilization but also a treasury of puns, double meanings, and aesthetic delight. Their pictorial character, often obscured today by concentration on the literal sense, engaged the Egyptians as much as it does a modern...
12. Auflage — Philipp von Zabern, 2012. — 132 S. — (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt). Die Faszination, die seit Jahrtausenden von den ägyptischen Pyramiden ausgeht, ist ungebrochen und erreicht ein stetig wachsendes Publikum. Der Erfolg dieses bereits in 11 Auflagen erschienen Klassikers bestätigt das in besonderer Weise: Er ist eine exzellente Einführung in das Lesen...
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