How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs A Step-By-Step Guide to Teach Yourself

Name: How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs A Step-By-Step Guide to Teach Yourself
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ISBN: 9780520239494

ISBN-10: 0520239490

ISBN-13: 9780520239494

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Mark Collier, Bill Manley, Richard Parkinson

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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 gain a basic knowledge of the language and culture of ancient Egypt. Collier and Manley's novel approach is informed by years of experience teaching Egyptian hieroglyphs to non-specialists. Using attractive drawings of actual inscriptions displayed in the British Museum, they concentrate on the kind of hieroglyphs readers might encounter in other collections, especially…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/20/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.342

Mark Collier is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Bill Manley teaches Egyptology at the University of Glasgow. Richard Parkinson is Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum.



Introduction to the Revised Edition



Hieroglyphs



More Uses of Hieroglyphs



Special Writings



Scenes and Captions



Description



Further Aspects of Description



Characterisation



The Future Hieroglyphic Sign-Lists for the Exercises


Reference


Tables Egyptian-English Vocabulary Key to the Exercises


Bibliography and Further Reading


Index