Format:
Video disc
Title:
Decoding the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs
ISBN:
9781629973302
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Series title(s):
General Note:
"Course no. 3541."
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, "How to draw Hieroglyphs," dictionaries, charts, vocabulary, and bibliography.
Contents:
Disc 1. 1. Why Egypt needed hieroglyphs ; 2. The ancient Egyptian alphabet ; 3. How a language becomes lost ; 4. Napoleon in Egypt ; 5. Early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone ; 6. William Bankes and the keys to decipherment -- Disc 2. 7. Jean-François Champollion cracks the code ; 8. Suffix pronouns and the hieroglyphs of Ptah ; 9. The immortal scribe ; 10. Hieroglyphs and the Bible ; 11. Dependent pronouns and the passive voice ; 12. Past tense and adjectives -- Disc 3. 13. New ideograms related to the Gods ; 14. Names of the Pharoahs ; 15. Ancient Egyptian numbers ; 16. The Egyptian calendar ; 17. Names of the Gods ; 18. Negation in ancient Egyptian sentences -- Disc 4. 19. Reading hieroglyphic jewelry ; 20. Palimpsests: when scribes make mistakes ; 21. An ancient Egyptian prayer for the dead ; 22. Translating the Tomb of Perneb ; 23. Translating Tutankhamen's tomb ; 24. King Tut's magic mirror and sarcophagus.
Summary:
Join popular Egyptologist Bob Brier for a 24-lecture guide to reading, writing, and translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Lectures are 30 min. each.
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