Champollion had extensive knowledge about Egypt and even understood the Coptic language, which had descended from ancient Egyptian. He found that the hieroglyphics contained Coptic sounds.

GB: It has “registers.” You can read Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in all directions, which is a little bit tricky. The only direction you cannot go is bottom to top. Ancient Egyptians love ...

In this short course participants will get a thorough introduction to reading Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and learn how to begin to read real Egyptian inscriptions. Hieroglyphs were used for well ...

Let's Read: This section allows learners ... scripts used across different periods to write the same ancient Egyptian language: Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic. These scripts did ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...