DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Decoding the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs / Bob Brier.

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]

©2016

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Join popular Egyptologist Bob Brier for a 24-lecture guide to reading, writing, and translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Lectures are 30 min. each.

The great courses. History. Ancient history

Great courses (DVD). Modern history. Ancient history.

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic.

Egyptian language -- History.

Egypt -- Civilization.

Brier, Bob, presenter, author.

Hopkins, Brandon.

Teaching Company.

"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.

Content supervisor, Brandon Hopkins ; producer, Jen Gray ; directors, Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen, Alexis Doty ; photography, Jeff Hunter.

Lecturer, Bob Brier.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.

Why Egypt needed hieroglyphs ; The ancient Egyptian alphabet ; How a language becomes lost ; Napoleon in Egypt ; Early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone ; William Bankes and the keys to decipherment -- Jean-François Champollion cracks the code ; Suffix pronouns and the hieroglyphs of Ptah ; The immortal scribe ; Hieroglyphs and the Bible ; Dependent pronouns and the passive voice ; New ideograms related to the Gods ; Ancient Egyptian numbers ; The Egyptian calendar ; Names of the Gods ; Negation in ancient Egyptian sentences -- Reading hieroglyphic jewelry ; Palimpsests: when scribes make mistakes ; An ancient Egyptian prayer for the dead ; Translating Tutankhamen's tomb ; King Tut's magic mirror and sarcophagus.

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