Egyptian Hieroglyphics Paperback Book by Joseph & Lenore Scott

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Paperback: 95 pages

Publisher: Hippocrene Books (May 1, 1998)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0781806291

ISBN-13: 978-0781806299

This volume offers an interesting description of how hieroglyphs were written, informative insights into their reading, and presents introductory information about the language. This book provides a history of Egyptian writing, scribes, hieroglyphs, grammar, numbers and gods. It also includes an interesting section of English-hieroglyphs vocabulary. The authors tell the readers about the decipherment of the ancient language and its importance. Well illustrated, this is a wonderful introductory book, for new students.

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. It combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing; Meroitic was a late derivation from demotic.

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