egyptian language

Text and color illustrations show the roles that hieroglyphs played in ancient Egyptian culture, covering such topics as schools, papyrus, the life of a scribe, the Book of the Dead, tomb inscriptions, and the Rosetta Stone, and provides a hieroglyph alphabet chart and stencil.

Presents the uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals of hieroglyphics and discusses their phonetics, writing, and semantics.

Examines fashions common in ancient Egypt; daily life for a child; hieroglyphics; religious beliefs and mummification; the Nile River; pyramids of Giza.

Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.