Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Decipher the language of ancient Egypt and learn what hieroglyphs can tell us about history, accompanied by an acclaimed Egyptologist.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs
- 02: The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet
- 03: How a Language Becomes Lost
- 04: Napoleon in Egypt
- 05: Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
- 06: William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment
- 07: Jean-François Champollion Cracks the Code
- 08: Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah
- 09: The Immortal Scribe
- 10: Hieroglyphs and the Bible
- 11: Dependent Pronouns and the Passive Voice
- 12: Past Tense and Adjectives
- 13: New Ideograms Related to the Gods
- 14: Names of the Pharaohs
- 15: Ancient Egyptian Numbers
- 16: The Egyptian Calendar
- 17: Names of the Gods
- 18: Negation in Ancient Egyptian Sentences
- 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
Taught by
Bob Brier
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