Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Season 1 (2016)

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Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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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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.