Authors: Lesley and Roy Adkins
Discover the secrets of the hieroglyphs with this first genuinely accessible guide to one of the world’s oldest writing systems.
Here is everything you need to know to:
- read the signs of the hieroglyphic ‘alphabet’
- understand numbers and counting
- write your own name using hieroglyphs
- decipher the names of pharaohs, gods and goddesses
- translate common words and phrases from monuments and tombs
This irresistible little book also includes the story of how hieroglyphs were originally deciphered as well as an essential time chart of Egyptian history.