Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs | Ancient Egyptian Alphabet | Wondrium

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Ancient Egyptian civilization is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating chapters in human history. While remnants of the culture like temples, obelisks, and sarcophagi continue to mystify us, you can unlock their true meaning if you know how to read hieroglyphs.

To the untrained eye, this ancient writing system looks like artful decoration, a random scattering of stylized ducks, suns, eyes, hands, chairs, and feathers. But to Egyptologists like Dr. Bob Brier of LIU Post—a noted public educator known as “Mr. Mummy” and a popular Great Courses professor—hieroglyphs are the gateway to understanding ancient Egypt, from its religious beliefs to its cosmological ideas to the legacies of its great pharaohs.

In short, they’re the closest we can get to truly resurrecting the lives of ancient Egyptians.

00:00 Translating a Sentence in Hieroglyphs
04:18 Phonetics, Determinatives, and Ideograms
05:49 Learning the Egyptian Alphabet Part 1
13:49 Learning the Egyptian Alphabet Part 2
23:39 Writing Letter Combinations
25:24 How to Transliterate Our Names
28:02 Practice Hieroglyphs With a Homework Lesson

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