Hieroglyphs

  • Decoration from the tomb of Seti I Plates illustrative of the research and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia   Read more »
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Deciphering Ancient Egypt
“We see engraved everywhere [in Egypt] innumerable shapes and forms called hieroglyphs, expressing the ancient records of primordial wisdom. Carving many kinds of birds and beasts of a strange world, so that the memory of tradition may be published to succeeding ages, they herald the wishes of kings, fulfilled or simply promised. For not as nowadays did the ancient Egyptian write a set and easily learned number of letters to... Read more »
Ceramic Vessel with Nautical and Faunal Motifs
Over a thousand years before the invention of the hieroglyphic script,...
Drum Lintel of Niuty
The drum lintel formed part of the entrance to the stone mastaba tomb of Niuty...
Coffin panel of Djehuty-nakht
This register of ornamental hieroglyphs from the coffin of the Treasurer of the...
Book Plate
A complete example of a faience label currently in the British Museum provides...
Small stela of Hornakht with titles and names
The six lines of cursive hieroglyphic text on this small stone contain the name...
Letter in the Hieratic Script
For day-to-day documents, ancient Egyptian scribes wrote in a cursive,...
Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granary
A child prodigy, member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and a...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Perhaps the best known ancient Egyptian religious text, the Book of the Dead is...
Statuette of a priest of Neith
The granite statue depicts its owner, Sobekhotep, a servant of the goddess...
Inscribed jar with demotic, hieroglyphic, and cuneiform
This small calcite (Egyptian alabaster) jar probably once held a type of ungent...
Statue of Horpakhepesh
Although the head is now missing and the hieroglyphic inscriptions are scarcely...
Kitab Shauq Al-Mustaham fi Ma‘irfat Rumuz Al-Aqlam (The Long-Desired...
Egyptomania in Medieval Arab Culture: The Case of Ibn Wahshiyya „The Egyptians...
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499)...
Excise, A Comical Hieroglyphical Epissle
This satirical letter exploits the mysterious, yet playful, properties of the...
Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens
Generally hailed as the father of modern Egyptology, Jean-François Champollion...
Decoration from the tomb of Seti I Plates illustrative of the...
A giant of a man and possessing many talents--from circus performer to...