Seeker of Knowledge
Seeker of Knowledge

Author: James Rumford

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003-06-23

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 0547530749

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In 1802, Jean-Francois Champollion was eleven years old. That year, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt’s ancient hieroglyphs. Champollion’s dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past, and he dedicated the next twenty years to the challenge. James Rumford introduces the remarkable man who deciphered the ancient Egyptian script and fulfilled a lifelong dream in the process. Stunning watercolors bring Champollion’s adventure to life in a story that challenges the mind and touches the heart.

Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Author: Karl-Theodor Zauzich

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 9780500276945

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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 literal sense, engaged the Egyptians as much as it dos a modern audience, and they offer not only direct accounts of life thousands of years ago but intriguing sidelights on Egyptian art, culture and belief. Internationally renowned Egyptologist Professor Zauzich presents a clear and well-illustrated introduction to hieroglyphs, for all enthusiasts and museum visitors. In easy stages he takes the reader step by step through the meanings of the signs and how they can be read. He then takes a dozen inscriptions on monuments, paintings and objects, and shows how to read each one - a feature found in no other guide. The author analyses the background to the signs, and the religion and world view which they embody. Fantastic colour illustrations and detailed line drawings fully clarify this system of pictorial symbology; and detailed appendices give the names of major kings and gods, as well as a hieroglyphic sig

Fascinating Hieroglyphics
Fascinating Hieroglyphics

Author: Christian Jacq

Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780806981000

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For centuries not a person alive could decipher the famed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Then a few experts began to understand how a single figure could be a picture, a symbol, and a sound all at once. You can join the ranks of those who can read hieroglyphs, and even create sentences of your own, with this ingeniously simple guide. It's the most complete introduction available, yet it's amazingly easy to understand. With best-selling author Christian Jacq as your guide, uncover the mystery that baffled the greatest minds of the ages--how the Egyptians first invented hieroglyphics, why it became a forgotten language, and how linguists and other detectives stumbled onto a remarkable code-breaking carving. Best of all you'll learn to read secret messages and inscriptions taken from royal tombs that reveal the profound ideas of these highly evolved cultures. If you can follow a book or tape on a foreign language, you can master the principles of reading hieroglyphics--and reward yourself with valuable insights into a totally different way to communicate with other human beings. 224 pages, 39 b/w illus., 6 x 9. NEW IN PAPERBACK

Sacred Signs
Sacred Signs

Author: Penelope Wilson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780192802996

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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; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianess, and for rarified communication with the gods.In this exciting new study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today.

Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Author: Bridget McDermott

Publisher: Chartwell Books

Published: 2016-11-02

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0785833994

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Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs interweaves a clear guide to deciphering this elegant, largely picture language with vivid depictions of its origins and the people themselves.

The Riddle of the Rosetta
The Riddle of the Rosetta

Author: Jed Z. Buchwald

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0691200904

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A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France, from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings, this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity"--.

The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone

Author: R. B. Parkinson

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The Rosetta Stone is one of the most popular artefacts in the British Museum. Containing a decree written in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphics, it proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. This concise study traces the history of `the most famous piece of rock in the world' to become a modern icon and tells the story of the race to use it to decipher Egypt's ancient script by Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Also includes a translation of the text.

Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Author: Angela McDonald

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780520252356

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A fascinating, easy-to-read yet highly informative introduction to hieroglyphs suitable for all novice Egyptologists. Angela McDonald makes learning the language of the pharaohs fun.--Joyce Tyldesley, author of Egypt

The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt
The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt

Author: Aidan Dodson

Publisher: New Holland Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781843304012

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This text reveals the truth behind the mystery of the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and the civilization that created them. The author traces the origins and development of hieroglyphic writing and explores the varied theories that scholars have expounded in their attempts to explain the script.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners

Author: Bill Manley

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500290288

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An original and accessible approach to learning hieroglyphs, written by an experienced teacher and author. This is the first guide to reading hieroglyphs that begins with Egyptian monuments themselves. Assuming no knowledge on the part of the reader, it shows how to interpret the information on the inscriptions in a step-by-step journey through the script and language of ancient Egypt. We enter the world of the ancient Egyptians and explore their views on life and death, Egypt and the outside world, humanity and the divine. The book draws on texts found on some thirty artifacts ranging from coffins to stelae to obelisks found in museums in Egypt, America, and Europe, and selected across two thousand years. The texts are then explained clearly, and are supported by full translations, photographs, and line drawings.