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

A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself

Author: Mark Collier and Bill Manley

With the help of Egyptologists Collier and Manley, museum-goers, tourists, and armchair travelers alike can gain a basic knowledge of the language and culture of ancient Egypt. Each chapter introduces a new aspect of hieroglyphic script and encourages acquisition of reading skills with practical exercises. 200 illustrations.

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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 funerary writings and tomb scenes. Each chapter introduces a new aspect of hieroglyphic script or Middle Egyptian grammar and encourages acquisition of reading skills with practical exercises. The texts offer insights into the daily experiences of their ancient authors and touch on topics ranging from pharaonic administration to family life to the Egyptian way of death. With this book as a guide, one can enjoy a whole new experience in understanding Egyptian art and artifacts around the world.

Critic Reviews

“"With the burgeoning public interest in all things Egyptian, as well as with the growth in self-study and distance learning, especially fostered by the Internet, this book fills a definite need . . . Students who complete the lessons will find themselves able to read, at least in part, many common and simple inscriptions."”

"Put away Captain Corelli's "Mandolin. "Set Peter Mayle back on the shelf. This year's secret runaway read is sterner stuff. A bright idea by two academics in a discipline regarded as musty, dusty and fusty has turned into that dream of the publishing world, the sleeper."--"The Guardian

About the Author

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.