Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction

Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Penelope Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0192805029

Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. In this exciting new study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of hieroglyphs with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography and the continuing deciphering of the script in modern times.

The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone
Author: R. B. Parkinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most popular artefacts in the British Museum. Containing a decree written in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphics, it proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. This concise study traces the history of `the most famous piece of rock in the world' to become a modern icon and tells the story of the race to use it to decipher Egypt's ancient script by Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Also includes a translation of the text.

Hieroglyphs from A to Z

Hieroglyphs from A to Z
Author: Peter Der Manuelian
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Alphabet books
ISBN: 9780764953064

Hieroglyphs from A to Zo is the first book published by PomegranateKids , an imprint of Pomegranate Communications, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. With bold graphics, charming, rhyming text and solid educational content, it explains the hieroglyphic code while imparting important facts about ancient Egypt. As an added bonus, a separate sheet of stencils is provided, slipped inside the back cover, so that kids can easily draw their own hieroglyphs. All told, this is the perfect book for any child who simply loves words and pictures.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination

Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Author: Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812296400

Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority. Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Author: W. V. Davies
Publisher: British Museum Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1987
Genre: Egyptian language
ISBN: 9780714180632

The Riddle of the Rosetta

The Riddle of the Rosetta
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0691200904

A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France, from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings, this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity"--.

Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics
Author: Jill McCorkle
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643750534

“Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul—a beautiful, heart-piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world. It is the work of a wonderful writer at her finest and most profound.” —Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle After many years in Boston, Lil and Frank have retired to North Carolina. The two of them married young, having bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Now, Lil has become deter­mined to leave a history for their own kids. She sifts through letters and notes and diary entries, uncovering old stories—and perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is now raising her son. For Shelley, Frank’s repeated visits begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she’d hoped to keep buried. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember. Empathetic and profound, this novel from master storyteller Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and to be a child trying to know your parents—a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

Emoglyphs

Emoglyphs
Author: Shirly Ben-Dor Evian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9789652785077

Picture-writing from hieroglyphs to the emoji.

Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Author: Bridget McDermott
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0785833994

Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs interweaves a clear guide to deciphering this elegant, largely picture language with vivid depictions of its origins and the people themselves.

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Author: Mark Collier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780520239494

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.