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Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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English
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12 hours 32 minutes
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Self-Paced
Level

Beginner

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Decipher the language of ancient Egypt and learn what hieroglyphs can tell us about history, accompanied by an acclaimed Egyptologist.

Syllabus

01: Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs
02: The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet
03: How a Language Becomes Lost
04: Napoleon in Egypt
05: Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
06: William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment
07: Jean-François Champollion Cracks the Code
08: Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah
09: The Immortal Scribe
10: Hieroglyphs and the Bible
11: Dependent Pronouns and the Passive Voice
12: Past Tense and Adjectives
13: New Ideograms Related to the Gods
14: Names of the Pharaohs
15: Ancient Egyptian Numbers
16: The Egyptian Calendar
17: Names of the Gods
18: Negation in Ancient Egyptian Sentences
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
By This Professor

Taught by

Bob Brier

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