Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Bob Brier | Self-Initiated Books

Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Bob Brier


  • In Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Professor Brier offers you the key to unlocking the mysteries of this amazing ancient language. Making this seemingly complex code accessible to anyone with a willingness to learn, his 24 lectures cover the basics of reading and writing hieroglyphs, including vocabulary words, number systems, and sentence structure. They also put your newfound knowledge to work, as you translate hieroglyphs found on some of ancient Egypt’s most intriguing sites and artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the temples at Abu Simbel to the tomb of Tutankhamen. Professor Brier opens up startling new worlds of discovery that will bring you closer than ever to a civilization that’s captivated us for millennia—and that will continue to do so for a long time to come.

    Episode 1: Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs



    Episode 2: The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet



    Episode 3: How a Language Becomes Lost



    Episode 4: Napoleon in Egypt



    Episode 5: Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone



    Episode 6: William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment



    Episode 7: Jean-François Champollion Cracks the Code



    Episode 8: Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah



    Episode 9: The Immortal Scribe



    Episode 10: Hieroglyphs and the Bible



    Episode 11: Dependent Pronouns and the Passive Voice



    Episode 12: Past Tense and Adjectives



    Episode 13: New Ideograms Related to the Gods



    Episode 14: Names of the Pharaohs



    Episode 15: Ancient Egyptian Numbers



    Episode 16: The Egyptian Calendar



    Episode 17: Names of the Gods



    Episode 18: Negation in Ancient Egyptian Sentences



    Episode 19: Reading Hieroglyphic Jewelry



    Episode 20: Palimpsests. When Scribes Make Mistakes



    Episode 21: An Ancient Egyptian Prayer for the Dead



    Episode 22: Translating the Tomb of Perneb



    Episode 23: Translating Tutankhamen's Tomb



    Episode 24: King Tut's Magic Mirror and Sarcophagus




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