Guides readers to understand and transcribe hieroglyphics by presenting and explaining phonetic elements.

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.

DIVInvaluable reference contains every word of vital repository of ancient Egyptian religious doctrine, grouped according to hieroglyphic symbols in standard scholarly system of Roman alphabetization. Phonetic version, definition, index of English equivalents. Second, revised edition. /div

This book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages—Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story “Shipwrecked Sailor,” written around 2200 bce. The text’s eighteen lessons–organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare—cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, and a new edition of the tale “Shipwrecked Sailor” with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, Hieroglyphic Egyptian can also be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.

Hieroglyphs from A to Zo is the first book published by PomegranateKids , an imprint of Pomegranate Communications, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With bold graphics, charming, rhyming text and solid educational content, it explains the hieroglyphic code while imparting important facts about ancient Egypt. As an added bonus, a separate sheet of stencils is provided, slipped inside the back cover, so that kids can easily draw their own hieroglyphs. All told, this is the perfect book for any child who simply loves words and pictures.

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.

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive and detailed dictionaries of Egyptian hieroglyphs with English to accompany it. The series includes a detailed Introduction by the author with key words and glyphs, a bibliography of works used to help with translation and research, glyphs organized alphabetically by the Egyptian alphabet with accompanying words and English translations, tables of hieroglyphs with phonetic and numeric values and accompanying translations, and an Index of both English and Egyptian words. Volume I includes the introduction, bibliography, a list of characters separated by subject and organized by table, and letters "A" through "KH" or "KHA" of hieroglyphs and translations. SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was born in Bodmin, Cornwall in the UK and discovered an interest in languages at a very early age. Budge spent all his free time learning and discovering Semitic languages, including Assyrian, Syriac, and Hebrew. Eventually, through a close contact, he was able to acquire a job working with Egyptian and Iraqi artifacts at the British Museum. Budge excavated and deciphered numerous cuneiform and hieroglyphic documents, contributing vastly to the museum's collection. Eventually, he became the Keeper of his department, specializing in Egyptology. Budge wrote many books during his lifetime, most specializing in Egyptian life, religion, and language.

Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Young, Champollion, Åkerblad, and others.

Scientific/metaphysical realities of pictorial images (Hieroglyphs) as the ultimate medium for the human consciousness that interpret, process and maintain the meanings of such images. This book covers the Egyptian Hieroglyph metaphysical language of images/pictures- the language of the mind/intellect/divine; the scientific/metaphysical realities of pictorial images (Hieroglyphs) as the ultimate medium for the human consciousness that interpret, process and maintain the meanings of such images; how each hieroglyphic image has imitative and symbolic (figurative and allegorical) meanings; the concurrence of modern science of such multiple meanings of each image; how Egyptian hieroglyphic images represent metaphysical concepts; the metaphysical significance of a variety of about 80 Egyptian Hieroglyphic images. This book is divided into 8 chapters. Chapter 1: Historical Deception of the (Ancient) Egyptian Linguistics will clear the intended confusion to misrepresent the Egyptian hieroglyphics as a primitive form of writing with individual sound values. The Egyptian Hieroglyphics are ideograms which are different and has nothing to do with the Egyptian alphabetical system. Chapter 2: The Scientific/Metaphysical Realities of Pictorial Images (Hieroglyphs) explains how human beings process information received from the five senses to the brain through visualized images; how each hieroglyphic image has imitative and symbolic (figurative and allegorical) meanings; the concurrence of modern science of such multiple meanings of each image; and how a series of images are processed in the consciousness the same way like a dream processing. Chapter 3: Egyptian Hieroglyphic Imagery Depictions of Thoughts explains how Egyptian hieroglyphic images represent metaphysical concepts; relationship between their functions and geometrical forms; and an overview of the Egyptian formation of such ideograms. Chapter 4: Animal Hieroglyphic Images explains the metaphysical significance of such images; and highlight the significance of over 30 related Egyptian Hieroglyphic images. Chapter 5: Human and Animal headed Human Hieroglyphic Images explains the metaphysical significance of such images; and highlight the significance of about 10 related Egyptian Hieroglyphic images. Chapter 6: Human Body Parts Hieroglyphic Images explains the metaphysical significance of such images; and highlight the significance of over 10 related Egyptian Hieroglyphic images. Chapter 7: Nature & Geometrical Figures Hieroglyphic Images explains the metaphysical significance of such images; and highlight the significance of over 10 related Egyptian Hieroglyphic images. Chapter 8: Man Made Objects Hieroglyphic Images explains the metaphysical significance of such images; and highlight the significance of about 20 related Egyptian Hieroglyphic images.