Decoding the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs
By: Bob Brier
Contributors: Hopkins, Brandon; Teaching Company
Series: The great courses. History. Ancient history; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781629973302
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Egyptian language; Civilization; Hieroglyphic Writing; History
Description: Join popular Egyptologist Bob Brier for a 24-lecture guide to reading, writing, and translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.  Lectures are 30 min. each.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1. -- 1.; title: Why Egypt needed hieroglyphs ; -- 2.; title: The ancient Egyptian alphabet ; -- 3.; title: How a language becomes lost ; -- 4.; title: Napoleon in Egypt ; -- 5.; title: Early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone ; -- 6.; title: William Bankes and the keys to decipherment -- -- Disc 2. -- 7.; title: Jean-François Champollion cracks the code ; -- 8.; title: Suffix pronouns and the hieroglyphs of Ptah ; -- 9.; title: The immortal scribe ; -- 10.; title: Hieroglyphs and the Bible ; -- 11.; title: Dependent pronouns and the passive voice ; -- 12. Past tense and adjectives -- Disc 3. -- 13.; title: New ideograms related to the Gods ; -- 14. Names of the Pharoahs ; -- 15.; title: Ancient Egyptian numbers ; -- 16.; title: The Egyptian calendar ; -- 17.; title: Names of the Gods ; -- 18.; title: Negation in ancient Egyptian sentences  -- -- Disc 4. -- 19.; title: Reading hieroglyphic jewelry ; -- 20.; title: Palimpsests: when scribes make mistakes ; -- 21.; title: An ancient Egyptian prayer for the dead ; -- 22. Translating the Tomb of Perneb ; -- 23.; title: Translating Tutankhamen's tomb ; -- 24.; title: King Tut's magic mirror and sarcophagus.