What Do Egyptian Hieroglyphs Say?
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- Duration: 30 minutes
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Features: Marc Zender Tulane University
Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2013.
Join Professor Zender as he reads hieroglyphs that Champollion's efforts helped to recover from oblivion, and see how you too can learn to decipher this blend of phonetic signs, logograms, and semantic signs. Also, consider the interaction of Egyptian writing and culture, including how the practice of damnatio memoriae was used to strike names from official records.