The symbols and imagery used in ancient Egypt. Covering aspects of the alphabet, gods and goddesses, commonly found expressions and numeric system.
An introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and numbering. Interactive examples allow users to create hieroglyphic numbers and fractions.
Lessons in hieroglyphics and links to other pages with software.
Publishes articles and book reviews on Egyptian and Coptic language and literature: grammar, language history, comparative linguistics, literature.
Online resources for the learning of ancient Egyptian, including hieroglyphic transcriptions/translations, discussion list and online tutorials.
Fonts and macros for writing hieroglyphics in LaTeX. Also contains some texts and related links.
A hieroglyphs writer for PCs. The user can create hieroglyphic texts as well as lines, rectangles, lunettes, cartouches and normal text.
An illustrated introduction to the development of hieroglyphs by Chris Burkinshaw, which can also be downloaded in Word format. Fonts and a glyph viewer are also available as downloads.
Photograph and description from the British Museum of the slab found in 1799 in Rosetta, with a text written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek, enabling the crucial breakthrough in deciphering Egyptian writing.
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