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Hieroglyphs

2000
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.

Illustrated hieroglyphics handbook

2002
Presents the uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals of hieroglyphics and discusses their phonetics, writing, and semantics.

Ancient Egypt

2002
Examines fashions common in ancient Egypt; daily life for a child; hieroglyphics; religious beliefs and mummification; the Nile River; pyramids of Giza.

The riddle of the Rosetta Stone

key to ancient Egypt : illustrated with photographs and prints
1990
Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Sacred signs

hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt
2003

Hieroglyphs without mystery

an introduction to ancient Egyptian writing
1992
The key to reading hieroglyphic writing using thirteen examples to aid in decoding.

Fun with hieroglyphs

1990
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.

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