Understanding Hieroglyphs: A Quick & Simple Guide

by Hilary Wilson

Describes the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854791648
• ISBN13: 9781854791641
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A key to the past

I often take sections of Wilson's book with me to museums as she has arranged common phrases into charts, rather like a tourist's phrase book, and this helps in translating the basic terminology. This book also has a bit more narrative and history than the other three basic hieroglyph books I own, and therefore would recommend it for those who want just a bit of hieroglyph training with their Egyptian history.The illustrations are nice, and the maps are good and useful. The chapter headings are arranged topically, rather than in linguistic-grammatical fashion. Here, instead of learning verbs, nouns, sentence structure, etc. for their own sake, you will be introduced to personal names, royal names, priesthood language, time-keeping language, etc. For most people, this will prove an easier and more accessible entry into Egyptian hieroglyphs.Hieroglyphs are different in character from most modern languages, and certainly from modern Western language. This intuitive book helps remove some of the mystery.The one drawback to this volume is the lack of systematic grammatical information. However, as most people don't need to go into that level of depth, this volume makes a perfect amateur's companion.