Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Beginner’s Guide

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The book is about the ancient Egyptian script Hieroglyphics, which gradually developed from pictograms to a well developed alphabetic script. The script helped Egyptians to keep written record of their religious practices, cultural and social particulars and above all the records of the Pharaohs and their achievements. Egyptologists, thousands of year later were able to reconstruct thelanguage after the script was deciphered in 1822. The deciphering of the scripts by Champollion, re-ignited the interest of the archaeologists in ancient in their language, culture and religion. another remarkable and no less sensational incident was the discovery of the tomb of Tut-enkh-Amen, which brought ancient to the door steps of every educated westerner. The objective of this book is to introduce the readers to the basics of Hieroglyphics through a series of easy-to-follow step by step guide to the script. It is expected that with a little practice and patience, readers should be able to read the proper nouns, particularly those of the Pharaohs and other royal characters within the car touches.

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Mihir Moitra is director in the board of the largest public enterprises in . His varied interests have made him contribute through his writings in the fields of management, human recourse development, organizational restructuring, criticism and reviews. This book is the outcome of his journeys to . His interest in the origin and history of languages is reflected all along the book. Table of ContentsIntroduction The land, its history and its people Hieroglyphics-The early story Introduction to the alphabet some more exercises in hieroglyphics the names of pharaohs The rosetta stone The tomb of Tut-Enkh-Amen Annexure-I: list of Egyptian gods and goddesses Annexure-II: The dynastic list of pharaohs annexure-III: List of determinatives and syllabic signs annexure-IV: sketch map of valley of kings annexure-V: Sketch-plan of the tomb.