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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners

AUTHOR: E. A. Wallis Budge
ISBN: 0486430995
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected author, a Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian...

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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners
- Book Review, by E. A. Wallis Budge

Book Description
Anyone curious about hieroglyphics or wanting to embark on a study of the Egyptian language will find no better guide than this classic primer. The author, for thirty years curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, wrote more than twenty books on Egyptology. This practical grammar comprises lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untransliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently. Unabridged republication of the classic 1895 edition.

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Book Review

First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners
- Book Reviews, by E. A. Wallis Budge

First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Anyone curious about hieroglyphics or wanting to embark on a study of the Egyptian language will find no better guide than this classic primer. Its author, the great Egyptologist Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934), who was for 30 years curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, translated many Egyptian texts and wrote more than 20 popular, reader-friendly books on Egyptology. This practical grammar comprises lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a short vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untrasliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently. An invaluable resource for archaeologists and anthropologists, this volume will prove useful to anyone with a professional or amateur interest in ancient Egypt.

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This is a reprint of the 1895 First Steps in Egyptian (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trèubner & Co.). Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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