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These pages are dedicated to Carol Hagelstein, wherever she is. She published an Egyptology newsletter.

My Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet
Your Name In Egyptian Hieroglyphics (loads slowly)

Articles about the Egyptian language:

• Egyptian language (basics)
  • Egyptian Languages
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet
  • Types of Signs in Egyptian NEW
  • Direction of Writing in Egyptian
  • Pronunciation of Egyptian Words
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary
  • Gardiner's Sign List
• Egyptian words, names, and numbers
  • Egyptian Gods
  • Some Famous Kings of Egypt
  • Egyptian Numbers
  • Years and Dates
  • Egyptian Units of Measurement
  • Egyptian Fractions
  • Egyptian Multiplication
  • Crowns of the King
  • The Rosetta Stone (loads fairly slowly)
  • Some Common Words In Egyptian (loads fairly slowly)
  • Some Common Expressions NEW
  • Some Egyptian Amulets
• Egyptian language (grammar and other details)
  • Word Order in Egyptian
  • Phonetic Signs in Egyptian (loads fairly slowly)
  • Determinative Signs in Egyptian (loads fairly slowly)
  • Singular and Plural in Egyptian
  • Gender in Egyptian
  • Tense in Egyptian
  • Prepositions in Egyptian
  • Personal Pronouns in Egyptian
    • Suffix Pronouns In Egyptian
  • Adjectives in Egyptian
  • Particles in Egyptian
  • Causatives in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
  • This, That, These, and Those in Egyptian NEW
  • (bw) in Egyptian
  • Interchangeable Signs in Egyptian
  • Determinatives and Parts of Speech
• Some drawings showing hieroglyphics
  • A Lintel of Usertsen (Sesostris) III NEW
  • An Obelisk of Usertsen (Sesostris) I NEW
  • A Wall of Thutmose III NEW
  • Some Small Inscriptions NEW
• Egyptian language (miscellaneous)
  • vs. NEW
  • Hieratic (expanded)
  • My Egyptian Hieroglyphic Fonts (loads fairly slowly) You can now download my first font.
  • Books About Egyptian Hieroglyphics
  • Some Comments Concerning Egyptian Hieroglyphics NEW
  • Drawing Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Other Egyptology articles:

• Do You Want to Be an Egyptologist? (some advice)
• Ancient Egyptian History
• List of Kings (nearly all of them)
• Map of Ancient Egypt
• Valley of the Kings NEW
• Pyramids
• About some kings:
  • Hatshepsut NEW
  • Akhenaton
  • Tutankhamun
  • Ramses II
  • Cleopatra
• "Cleopatra's Needle" in New York
• Curse of the Pharaohs
• The 3-4-5 Right Triangle in Ancient Egypt
• The Mummy's Brain
• The Two Lands
• The Egyptian Vulture (also in my Science pages)
• The Mummy (the Movie) NEW
• Egypt and the Bible NEW
• Afrocentrism (in my Issues/Opinions pages)
• Senet an ancient board game

These are in my Book Reviews:

• Some Books about Life in Ancient Egypt NEW
• The Murder Of Tutankhamen - by Bob Brier
• The Lost Tomb - by Kent R. Weeks
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead - by Raymond Faulkner

These are in my Pseudoscience pages:

• Pi and the Great Pyramid
• The Pyramid Inch
• My Pyramids
• Ancient Egyptians in Australia? NEW

My versions of Ancient Egyptian stories:

• The Prince and the Sphinx
• The Eloquent Peasant (I like this story)
• The Two Brothers
• The Shipwrecked Sailor
• The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (to which I have added an ending)
• The Tale of Sinuhe NEW
• The Story of Osiris NEW

These are my versions of these old stories. While they are very interesting as stories, my versions are probably very inaccurate. I have tried to compare several sources, to come up with some accuracy. But, some of my sources are very poor. I have tried to read a couple of the original hieroglyphic/hieratic texts. But, my skills with that language are inadequate, so far. I am told that my version of the Shipwrecked Sailor is quite different from other versions. Some day, I hope to shape up these stories.

My own fiction about ancient Egypt:

• Stories of Nefer-Djehuti:
  • The Miracle of the Empty Tomb
  • The Miracle of the Mountain That Moved
  • The Ivory Cylinder
  • My Encounter with a Crocodile NEW
• Children's stories:
  • The Sacred Ibis (a children's story)
  • The Ibises and the King (a children's story

These are also in my Fiction pages.

Egyptology Links:

• Theban Mapping Project (Tomb KV5)
• Egypt WWW Index (Egyptology page)
• Hieroglyphic texts
• Theban Royal Mummy Project
• Freeman Institute - Ancient Egyptian Photo Gallery
• True Origins: Egypt
• Reeder's Egypt Links
• Ancient Egyptian Literature
• Stephen Fryer - Egyptian Language and Literature
• Glyph for Windows & MacScribe (Egyptian text editor (MacScribe is the Mac version))
• GlyphScribe 2000 (Egyptian text editor)
• Encyclopedia of the Rulers of Egypt
• The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs (some nice graphics)
  • Egyptian Clip Art: Gods and Goddesses
• Text of the Rosetta Stone
• The Egyptionary (an Egyptian/English dictionary)
• KMT Egyptology magazine
• Ancient Egypt Magazine
• Kelly L. Ross - The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian
• GlyphTutor for Windows (program for tutoring phonetic signs)
• egyptvoyager.com
• KingTutShop.com (Get papyrus products here. I haven't tried it yet)
• Tafa's Trip to Egypt (nice photos)
• House of Scrolls (Mummy movies)
• Ancient Nile
• Absolute Egyptology (over 1000 photos of Egypt)
• APIS - Advanced Papyrological Information System
• Duke Papyrus Archive
• Liverpool Museum - The Nile File
• Buy paintings on real papyrus sheets
• The Ancient Egypt Site
• Working with hieroglyphs on a Mac—resources for Egyptologists
• Begin Writing - Egyptian Writing

• John Heise - The Akkadian Language (Babylonian and Assyrian)

Also see my book reviews of the following fiction which take place in ancient Egypt:

• The Amelia Peabody Series - by Elizabeth Peters
• The Lord Meren Series - by Lynda S. Robinson (with a link to a short story)
• Lieutenant Bak Series - by Lauren Haney
• The Ramses Series - by Christian Jacq.

Background image (which I have modified to make my text more readable) is from Neferchichi's Egyptian Graphics, at The Tomb of the Chihuahua Pharaohs.

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