In Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Professor Brier offers you the key to unlocking the mysteries of this amazing ancient language. Making this seemingly complex code accessible to anyone with a willingness to learn, his 24 lectures cover the basics of reading and writing hieroglyphs, including vocabulary words, number systems, and sentence structure. They also put your newfound knowledge to work, as you translate hieroglyphs found on some of ancient Egypt’s most intriguing sites and artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the temples at Abu Simbel to the tomb of Tutankhamen. Professor Brier opens up startling new worlds of discovery that will bring you closer than ever to a civilization that’s captivated us for millennia—and that will continue to do so for a long time to come.
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. When Scribes Make Mistakes
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
