''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'' is a
primer on understanding
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ( ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined Ideogram, ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct char ...
. The text was written by
Mark Collier (Egyptologist) and
Bill Manley around 1998.
The standard version of analytic Egyptian hieroglyphs is based upon the 26 categories of the
Gardiner's Sign List (about 700 signs), still the basic standard. According to WorldCat, the book is widely known and is held in 1062 libraries.
[http://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide-to-teach-yourself/oclc/39188707&referer=brief_results ] ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'' uses a simple approach with just six categories:
* Signs depicting people or parts of the human body
* Signs depicting creatures or parts of their bodies
* Signs depicting sky, earth, water or plants
* Other small signs
* Other tall signs
* Other broad signs
With the older styles and outlines of hieroglyphs being redone and rethought by modern Egyptologists, new approaches to books on the
Egyptian language
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world ...
and the hieroglyphs have been tried.
References
*
Collier, Mark, and
Manley, Bill, ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'', c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a ''word Glossary'', p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162–73) (hardcover, )
Modern Egyptian hieroglyphs books
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