Reading Hieroglyphs & Ancient Egyptian Art

Read and understand Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs through a series of lessons and practical exercises with hieroglyphic examples from ancient Egypt. The author has created a foundation course of 10 lessons of Hieroglyph studies and 5 modules of Ancient Egyptian art studies. The student will begin by learning the direction of writing, sound signs or phonograms and the Egyptian alphabet of sound signs, followed by a practical hieroglyph writing exercise where the student will learn the basics of transliteration and translation by writing and memorizing a vocabulary of hieroglyphic words and their meaning. Learning to translate hieroglyphic text is best done by the use of numerous examples and exercises which this book provides. The key to learning any language is vocabulary, and therefore the student should commit to memory new words and sound and idea signs as one makes progress through the lessons. For reference during the process of translation, where memory fails, the student should refer to a Hieroglyphic Sign List & Vocabulary (pictured) and for further study of grammar, Sir Alan Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar. Lesson 2 will introduce the student to pictograms (ideograms) and their use as determinatives, followed by an introduction to understanding sentence structure. Each lesson will be completed by a vocabulary study and practical exercises; for self-marking, the answers to the exercises are in the appendix, this is to ensure that the student can check his own interprations in order to gain confidence. Lessons 3 to 10 continue to develop the students understanding of grammar, sentence structure and word order. The course then moves on to 3 Hieroglyphic study modules, The Offering Formula of the Funerary Cult, Number and Measurement, The divisions of Time and Method of Dating. The second part of the course Reading Ancient Egyptian Art will introduce the student to the use of hieroglyphs in Egyptian art and is in 5 study modules, you will study the Cartouches of the Kings, The Tomb of Tutankhamun, Canopic Jar Formula, Funerary Shabty Figures and The Tomb of Nefertari.