Ancient Egyptian Forum • View topic

PharoahKel · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:38 am

Can anybody read hieroglyphics? ive been learning but im doing it online because i lack the funding to take a course, but does anyone know a really good website to learn? and if u know it fluently, how did u learn and how long did it take? i only know the basics so far

PharoahKel · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:40 am

and is hieroglyphics a spoken language?

Meritaton · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:05 pm

Most of us can read them a little, I can only read names & some titles & some words. Ancient Egyptian was a spoken language but it's pronunciation isn't known now.

PharoahKel · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:40 am

thanx for the help!

Dark_Meryetamun_28 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:55 am

There are books that teach you how to read ancient Egyptian and how to pronounce it, apparently. I got one for Christmas. Go check them out on an online store like www.amazon.com

Chenoa · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:16 pm

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Dark_Meryetamun_28 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 12:09 pm

I'm giving you a couple books I looked up.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

Need anymore? Go to the search:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/searc ... 08-2900621

Tadukhipa · Joined:Sat Jan 18, 2003 10:33 am Posts:399 Location: Canada

Thanks! Have you read any of them? I think I might look into my library to see if they have anything. I'm kinda cheap cash-wise...

Dark_Meryetamun_28 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:38 am

the one at the top looks like mine, and it was not that hard to understand. The others were just part of the search. I just realized I put all of the search items in there, so you couldn't get more from that serach if you wanted to! :oops:

Well, all you have to do is change the search.

Meritaton · **Posted:** Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:05 am

At first, check out some websites and learn the basics. With that you can decide whether you want to learn more.

for beginners:

http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoic ... phs_1.html

this is where I learnt most of what I know:

http://www.fnspo.cz/mmm/egypt/hiero/1.htm

another page:

http://www.manchesteregypt.freeserve.co ... glyphs.htm

a cool program:

http://www.programurl.com/education_hieronote.htm