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Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt
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Product Description
Six hundred of the figures used in classic Egyptian "sacred text" are here presented with explanations, tracing the origin and meaning of each sign.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #307172 in Books
- Published on: 1996-11-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 251 pages
Customer Reviews
Brilliant :-)
I have just started to study ancient Egypt and for anyone else about to this book is a must. It covers the original hieroglyphic picture then the simplified demotic version. This book covers about 600 of the 700 commonly used 'glyphs'. In the book is brief description on the Rosetta stone which has three versions of the same text (Greek, demotic and Hieroglyphic) which was the key to decoding the Egyptian writing. With most of the hieroglyphs is a picture taken from a ruin to show what they look like. On some of the pages the diagrams are spaced out a bit to much just to thicken the book, but it is good value for the amount of knowledge that you could learn from it.... ;-)
