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What Do Egyptian Hieroglyphs Say?

Year

2013

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

30m

Rating

TVPG

Author

null

Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Join Professor Zender as he reads hieroglyphs that Champollion's efforts helped to recover from oblivion, and see how viewers too can learn to decipher this blend of phonetic signs, logograms, and semantic signs. Also, consider the interaction of Egyptian writing and culture, including how the practice of damnatio memoriae was used to strike names from official records.

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