writing, hieroglyphic

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.

The key to reading hieroglyphic writing using thirteen examples to aid in decoding.

Introduces Egyptian hieroglyphs, indicates how they correspond to the English alphabet, and explains how to use them to write words and sentences. Includes rubber stamps and an ink pad for printing messages.