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(More customer reviews)I've been teaching myself Middle Egyptian from Allen's book but there's a difference between the clean and nicely formatted and fully formed sentences there and the stylized abbreviated inscriptions on the monuments pictured in this book. It's wonderful to see so many real examples in their original context and it's wonderful to see so much discussion devoted to each example. So I'd say this book is a must-buy for beginners in Middle Egyptian who want to read inscriptions, along with Collier and Manley.
One of the toughest things I've found is dealing with variations in ancient "handwriting". This book has really helped by displaying nicely formatted text alongside the original.
Seems like it might be a tough book for people not also studying hieroglyphs through another source. Without some familiarity, the ancient Egyptian habit of abbreviating words, reordering words, using random seeming "spellings", dropping grammatical endings and so on could make the amount of unsystematized information bewildering.
If you're looking for some supplemental hieroglyph reading, get this book.
But if you're looking for a taste of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but you're not yet ready for a heavyweight grammar, still get this book.
I hope we get a sequel.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs have long fascinated people the world over, though traditionally only specially trained scholars have been able to unlock their esoteric secrets. In Hieroglyph Detective, renowned Egyptologist Nigel Strudwick offers a historical background for the symbols as he takes the reader on a visual tour of museums around the world and provides step-by-step instructions on how to decipher inscriptions from ancient Egyptian tombs and temples. This hands-on field guide contains everything one needs to uncover age-old mysteries like a true detective!
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