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24 Episodes
S1 E1 - Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs
S1 E2 - The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet
S1 E3 - How a Language Becomes Lost
S1 E4 - Napoleon in Egypt
S1 E5 - Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
S1 E6 - William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment
S1 E7 - Jean-Francois Champollion Cracks the Code
S1 E8 - Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah
S1 E9 - The Immortal Scribe
S1 E10 - Hieroglyphs and the Bible
S1 E11 - Dependent Pronouns and the Passive Voice
S1 E12 - Past Tense and Adjectives
S1 E13 - New Ideograms Related to the Gods
S1 E14 - Names of the Pharaohs
S1 E15 - Ancient Egyptian Numbers
S1 E16 - The Egyptian Calendar
S1 E17 - Names of the Gods
S1 E18 - Negation in Ancient Egyptian Sentences
S1 E19 - Reading Hieroglyphic Jewelry
S1 E20 - Palimpsests: When Scribes Make Mistakes
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Synopsis
Noted Egyptologist Bob Brier’s Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs is the key to unlocking an ancient language. In 24 lectures, you’ll cover the basics of reading and writing hieroglyphs, including vocabulary words, number systems, and sentence structure. You’ll also translate hieroglyphs found on ancient sites and artifacts, such as the temples at Abu Simbel and the tomb of Tutankhamen.
