Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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Call Number: DVD 493.1 Br Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Course no. 3541."
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, "How to draw Hieroglyphs," dictionaries, charts, vocabulary, and bibliography.
Disc 1. 1. Why Egypt needed hieroglyphs ; 2. The ancient Egyptian alphabet ; 3. How a language becomes lost ; 4. Napoleon in Egypt ; 5. Early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone ; 6. William Bankes and the keys to decipherment -- Disc 2. 7. Jean-François Champollion cracks the code ; 8. Suffix pronouns and the hieroglyphs of Ptah ; 9. The immortal scribe ; 10. Hieroglyphs and the Bible ; 11. Dependent pronouns and the passive voice ; 12. Past tense and adjectives -- Disc 3. 13. New ideograms related to the Gods ; 14. Names of the Pharoahs ; 15. Ancient Egyptian numbers ; 16. The Egyptian calendar ; 17. Names of the Gods ; 18. Negation in ancient Egyptian sentences -- Disc 4. 19. Reading hieroglyphic jewelry ; 20. Palimpsests: when scribes make mistakes ; 21. An ancient Egyptian prayer for the dead ; 22. Translating the Tomb of Perneb ; 23. Translating Tutankhamen's tomb ; 24. King Tut's magic mirror and sarcophagus.
Lecturer, Bob Brier.
Join popular Egyptologist Bob Brier for a 24-lecture guide to reading, writing, and translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Lectures are 30 min. each.
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