Reading Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Come along with me on a short tour of the famous Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where I'll put my skills to the test reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Egyptian Museum is a treasure trove of priceless ancient artifacts - a must do for any ancient Egypt enthusiast - but its old fashioned set-up and lack of posted information on the displays makes it a tough museum to tackle without a guide. I was so happy I had the time to learn to read basic hieroglyphs before the trip. While it was super interesting to learn a bit of the ancient Egyptian language and incredibly fun to practice on real ancient artifacts, learning to read hieroglyphs ended up being an essential skill to have in order to know what I was looking at in the museum!
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Fabulous! Being able to read something written so long ago, and understand most of it.
Thank you! Yes, learning to read a bit made visiting Egypt such a rich experience - plus it was fun!
One of my passions it is the reconstruction of spoken Egyptian ; so i am very much annoyed by the approach of mainstream egyptologists who consider it to be not worth the trouble to reconstruct a plausible , vocalised pronunciation.
That’s really interesting! Would be cool to hear it properly spoken.
I ALWAYS wondered about that! I always thought that it would be cool to revive it, even if we are just using a reconstructed pronunciation.
@@letshuman8985 Yeah, unfortunately they didn't use vowels in their writing, so we really can only guess - plus the spoken language evolved a fair bit over the years, whereas the writing stayed a bit more "old school". But it would be fun to actually know what at least one era of the ancient spoken language sounded like!
@@daradventures That’s what I wonder about…the vowels. For instance, why are there vowels in “hieroglyph alphabets?”
More, plz. Totally enjoyed watching.
Thanks for the kind words! Have a couple other videos on Egypt on my channel, and a couple more still to make!
Your videos are great, very nice voice, we're looking forward to tomorrow, we'll be in Hurghada tomorrow.
Hope you enjoy it!
@@daradventures Thank you, we hope so too
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glad you enjoyed!
Omg you see in the black pyramid how perfect the drawings are? Like seems like they used machines or something, I don’t think by hand they could do that so perfectly
I know, the level of skill they had was incredible - the artisans back then were complete masters at their craft.
There are so many YT videos now available for learning this craft. It is fun to impress people, even if you're not completely accurate ;-)
There are a ton of videos on everything on TH-cam 😊I can’t speak for others, but for me the fun was to learn, to challenge myself and to have a more enriching trip than I would have otherwise - if people are impressed or not, doesn’t matter much! Just like to share my experiences 😃
Hi! Do you know where I could get a copy of your notes on the pronunciation of the hieroglyphs, especially the ones at the very end of your video? Thanks!
Hi there! The notes I showed at the end were mostly just photocopies from the below book, with my own handwritten notations. I loved this book, it made learning so easy to follow - felt just like learning to read any other language:
www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Hieroglyphs-Complete-Beginners-Manley/dp/0500290288/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3IM2KMKQN7GZM&keywords=egyptian+hieroglyphics+books&qid=1676520046&sprefix=egyptian+hier,aps,153&sr=8-3.
Along with that book, I also used this video course as an additional resource - taught by a professor at Long Island University. The course gets much more complex than the book, you’ll learn full sentences and more grammar. It’s also great to be able to hear someone attempt to speak the language, to the best of our educated guesses as to what it may have sounded like:
www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/decoding-the-secrets-of-egyptian-hieroglyphs
@@daradventures Thank you so much! I dont know how far I will get, but I really enjoy learning about hieroglyphs. I love drawing them too!
@@letshuman8985 have fun with it!! it’s an amazing feeling when you start making some progress, plus it’s a fun random fact to tell people at parties - “hi I can read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs” 😉
Is that AD or BC ?
Everything in the video is BC
@How to learn hieroglyphs' go to college and study it !
Well duhhh !!!
Hieroglyphs is plagiarism. The original writing's title is Medu Neter created by Black people.
😂😂😂😂 yeah right
@@Sema-Tawy
You're obviously not literate.