Great courses (DVD). Modern history. Ancient history

Lecturer, Bob Brier

Noted Egyptologist Bob Brier's Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs is the key to unlocking this ancient language. In 24 lectures, you'll cover the basics of reading and writing hieroglyphs, including vocabulary words, number systems, and sentence structure. You'll also translate hieroglyphs found on ancient sites and artifacts, such as the temples at Abu Simbel and the tomb of Tutankhamen

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs

Episode 2

The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet

Episode 3

How a Language Becomes Lost

Episode 4

Napoleon in Egypt

Episode 5

Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone

Episode 6

William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment

Episode 7

Jean-François Champollion Cracks the Code

Episode 8

Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah

Episode 9

The Immortal Scribe

Episode 10

Hieroglyphs and the Bible

Episode 11

Dependent Pronouns and the Passive Voice

Episode 12

Past Tense and Adjectives

Episode 13

New Ideograms Related to the Gods

Episode 14

Names of the Pharaohs

Episode 15

Ancient Egyptian Numbers

Episode 16

The Egyptian Calendar

Episode 17

Names of the Gods

Episode 18

Negation in Ancient Egyptian Sentences

Episode 19

Reading Hieroglyphic Jewelry

Episode 20

Palimpsests

Episode 21

An Ancient Egyptian Prayer for the Dead

Episode 22

Translating the Tomb of Perneb

Episode 23

Translating Tutankhamen's Tomb

Episode 24

King Tut's Magic Mirror and Sarcophagus