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Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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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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