100 HIEROGLYPHS THINK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

Author: Kemp, Barry
Illustrations: Illustrations
ISBN: 1862076588
Format: Hardback
Keywords: African history: BCE to c 500 CE   ancient Egypt   EGYPT  
Publication Date: 2005
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100 HIEROGLYPHS  THINK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
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Hardback , 220mm. 256 Egyptian culture is divided from us by several millennia, a lost people, and a dead language. We can discover much about this fascinating civilization from its physical remains, but perhaps the greatest insights into the Egyptian mind come from Egyptian hieroglyphs. They reveal the priorities, concerns and beliefs of the Egyptians - a whole worldview. Unlike the western alphabet, which is an arbitrary set of symbols not anchored in reality, each Egyptian hieroglyph visually denotes a concept central to Egyptian thinking. The language and its written form is intimately bound up with the imaginative world of the Egyptians. Here Barry Kemp presents 100 of the Egyptian hieroglyphs to provide access to this unique culture. Kemp takes us on a journey through the Egyptian mind, revealing not only aspects of day to day life in Ancient Egypt, but gradually building a picture of the historical and mythological references that were the cornerstones of Egyptian thought. This fascinating book helps us get inside a long-vanished world.

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