--- product_id: 8008971 title: "How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition" price: "₹ 4926" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/8008971-how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide store_origin: IN region: India --- # How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition **Price:** ₹ 4926 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 4926 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/8008971-how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Hieroglyphs are pictures used as signs in writing. When standing before an ancient tablet in a museum or visiting an Egyptian monument, we marvel at this unique writing and puzzle over its meaning. Now, with the help of Egyptologists Mark Collier and Bill Manley, museum-goers, tourists, and armchair travelers alike can gain a basic knowledge of the language and culture of ancient Egypt. Collier and Manley's novel approach is informed by years of experience teaching Egyptian hieroglyphs to non-specialists. Using attractive drawings of actual inscriptions displayed in the British Museum, they concentrate on the kind of hieroglyphs readers might encounter in other collections, especially funerary writings and tomb scenes. Each chapter introduces a new aspect of hieroglyphic script or Middle Egyptian grammar and encourages acquisition of reading skills with practical exercises. The texts offer insights into the daily experiences of their ancient authors and touch on topics ranging from pharaonic administration to family life to the Egyptian way of death. With this book as a guide, one can enjoy a whole new experience in understanding Egyptian art and artifacts around the world. Review: All the things good and pure that are in this book - I recently received this book and I really must say it is a great book. I am no expert; in fact, I bought this book because I am a complete beginner and I from what I saw in reviews of various books I felt this was the most appropriate text for beginning with the study of egyptian hieroglyphs. I have already gone through the first chapters and I am glad to say it is very pleasant to learn hieroglyphs from this book: the pace is quite natural and slow, they present to you just as much words and phrases as you need in each chapter so you can try to memorize them slowly, and even though the book is short, it presents a lot of information in a very condensed manner, so after just a couple of chapters so feel as though you have learned a lot of things, while never failing to enjoy your reading or getting bored. It is almost as being in class with a really enjoyable professor. The excursus sections are also quite enjoyable to read and they always have much to do with the concepts introduced in their chapter. The exercises, like everything else in this book, were thought up very well, and they really put your grasp on the concepts to the test. I could go on hightlighting specific aspects of this book, but I believe I already said all the important ones. In terms of content, presentation, and overall quality as a educational text I give this book a solid 5/5. I believe that this book should work perfectly as a stepping stone between the beginner aspiring to learn the egyptian language and the more complex/more scholarly text from authors such as Allen, and give him/her the necessary understanding to be able to actually use other drier materials as sign lists, translations books, and dictionaries. Now, something that did somehow take the smile off my face was that a couple of the beautiful golden letters that spell "hieroglyphs" in the front cover started peeling away after three or four days. It's not enough to actually take away some of my fondness towards the book, but it is indeed something that should be noted. However, I know this is not the authors' fault and so I will not take it into account when giving out the stars because this book is really too good to give it something less than 5 stars. Review: an excellent introduction to ancient middle Egyptian - _How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs_ is an excellent starting place for anyone wanting to learn the fundamentals of transliterating and translating hieroglyphs. The first chapter is a bit overwhelming, (the authors want students to jump in feet first), but the strucutre of the language is quickly and clearly explained. Each exercise has an answer key at the end of the book for you to check your work, which I found to be invaluable. The vocabulary lists similarly help in working through the translation and transliteration of tombs, monuments and cartouches. The grammar - and the explanation of how it works in ancient Egyptian - is what really sets this text apart from others on the subject. Tenses, verb forms and prepositions are clearly explained and modeled. A cautionary note: if you have not learned another language (or if its been awhile since you last studied language), this will be difficult - perhaps very difficult - to pick up. As with any serious study of language, perseverence, practice and patience will pay off, and Collier and Manley do a tremendous job of breaking down the rules of the language. That is not to say that the book is not without its flaws. Some of the images of inscriptions are of very poor quality - they almost look as if they are third or fourth generation photocopies such is the degeneration of the images; some are of such poor quality to make them illegible. (Fortunately their catalogue number at the British Museum is provided allowing one to look them up on line.) While the vocabularly lists are comprehensive, the authors do have a tendency to provide terms, and especially epithets of gods, outside of the vocab lists, and then expect readers to recollect them for translation much later in the book. In the final analysis, this is far and away the best introductory text on the language. When completed, students should (at the very least) be able to read the funerary inscriptions found on most tombs, (the Htp d nsw) and will be in an excellent position to begin more complex study. Highly recommended. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #88,060 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Medieval Literary Criticism (Books) #80 in Linguistics Reference #165 in Foreign Language Instruction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 709 Reviews | ## Images ![How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812oyv739EL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All the things good and pure that are in this book *by R***S on September 16, 2014* I recently received this book and I really must say it is a great book. I am no expert; in fact, I bought this book because I am a complete beginner and I from what I saw in reviews of various books I felt this was the most appropriate text for beginning with the study of egyptian hieroglyphs. I have already gone through the first chapters and I am glad to say it is very pleasant to learn hieroglyphs from this book: the pace is quite natural and slow, they present to you just as much words and phrases as you need in each chapter so you can try to memorize them slowly, and even though the book is short, it presents a lot of information in a very condensed manner, so after just a couple of chapters so feel as though you have learned a lot of things, while never failing to enjoy your reading or getting bored. It is almost as being in class with a really enjoyable professor. The excursus sections are also quite enjoyable to read and they always have much to do with the concepts introduced in their chapter. The exercises, like everything else in this book, were thought up very well, and they really put your grasp on the concepts to the test. I could go on hightlighting specific aspects of this book, but I believe I already said all the important ones. In terms of content, presentation, and overall quality as a educational text I give this book a solid 5/5. I believe that this book should work perfectly as a stepping stone between the beginner aspiring to learn the egyptian language and the more complex/more scholarly text from authors such as Allen, and give him/her the necessary understanding to be able to actually use other drier materials as sign lists, translations books, and dictionaries. Now, something that did somehow take the smile off my face was that a couple of the beautiful golden letters that spell "hieroglyphs" in the front cover started peeling away after three or four days. It's not enough to actually take away some of my fondness towards the book, but it is indeed something that should be noted. However, I know this is not the authors' fault and so I will not take it into account when giving out the stars because this book is really too good to give it something less than 5 stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ an excellent introduction to ancient middle Egyptian *by D***N on August 12, 2011* _How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs_ is an excellent starting place for anyone wanting to learn the fundamentals of transliterating and translating hieroglyphs. The first chapter is a bit overwhelming, (the authors want students to jump in feet first), but the strucutre of the language is quickly and clearly explained. Each exercise has an answer key at the end of the book for you to check your work, which I found to be invaluable. The vocabulary lists similarly help in working through the translation and transliteration of tombs, monuments and cartouches. The grammar - and the explanation of how it works in ancient Egyptian - is what really sets this text apart from others on the subject. Tenses, verb forms and prepositions are clearly explained and modeled. A cautionary note: if you have not learned another language (or if its been awhile since you last studied language), this will be difficult - perhaps very difficult - to pick up. As with any serious study of language, perseverence, practice and patience will pay off, and Collier and Manley do a tremendous job of breaking down the rules of the language. That is not to say that the book is not without its flaws. Some of the images of inscriptions are of very poor quality - they almost look as if they are third or fourth generation photocopies such is the degeneration of the images; some are of such poor quality to make them illegible. (Fortunately their catalogue number at the British Museum is provided allowing one to look them up on line.) While the vocabularly lists are comprehensive, the authors do have a tendency to provide terms, and especially epithets of gods, outside of the vocab lists, and then expect readers to recollect them for translation much later in the book. In the final analysis, this is far and away the best introductory text on the language. When completed, students should (at the very least) be able to read the funerary inscriptions found on most tombs, (the Htp d nsw) and will be in an excellent position to begin more complex study. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for a Fast Study and Enhances Egypt Tours *by M***N on March 14, 2008* This is a great book if you're going on a tour of Egypt and want to learn a little about hieroglyphics so you won't be completely illiterate while exploring the tombs - your guide on any official tour should be able to read them, but won't have time to explain everything. You won't get bogged down for months - it's geared for words and phrases you are likely to find in tombs. I studied the first three chapters then scanned and combined the tables in the back of the book into a two-sided, one-page cheat sheet to carry with me into the tombs. It made my trip much more enjoyable and people on our tour were always asking me what it said next to an interesting drawing - I could usually get at least the gist of it: "He's making an offering of beer and other things to a god...", etc. A great example is when our tour was at Luxor, in the Temple of Karnak, and I noticed that on many of those large pillars (it's a "forest" of pillars without a roof) the hieroglyphics for "life" (the ankh) and "give" (a tiny triangle in an isosceles triangle) were repeated over and over at ever higher places as you walked around the pillar. The temple was dedicated to the god Amun Re. Suddenly, I realized the meaning: while following those words, your eyes were being lifted to Amun Re, the Sun god, who "gave life" - it was as if someone from over 3000 years ago suddenly reached out and talked to me. ## Frequently Bought Together - How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition - Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners - Hieroglyphic Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Middle Egyptian Language --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/8008971-how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide](https://www.desertcart.in/products/8008971-how-to-read-egyptian-hieroglyphs-a-step-by-step-guide) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-06-16*