num_pages: 368
description: With this illustrated dictionary of hieroglyphics anyone can understand their significance and unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt.Whether sculpted painted or drawn on ceramics hieroglyphics ornamented the temples palaces and tombs of ancient Egypt. What did those intriguing and elusive pictures mean? With this new approach to hieroglyphics you'll step back 5000 years into the past and begin to understand their significance. More than 200 original hieroglyphs combine with detailed semantic explanations to bring a new dimension to drawings almost astonishing in their modernity. Go through it like a dictionary reading phonetic and graphic interpretations: every element in each panel is broken down revealing how and why a picture of two serpents plus a rope and legs in movement signified destruction. You'll feel as if a whole old world is opening up to you.
language: English
title: Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook
publisher: Sterling