Learn to read hieroglyphs
How the writing works, what the famous symbols mean, how the pharaohs wrote their names and what to read at the great museums and sites. A new article every day.
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- Which way do you read hieroglyphs? Which way do you read hieroglyphs? Toward the faces: birds, snakes and people look at the start of the line. Rows, columns and the odd exceptions.
- How to read hieroglyphs How to read hieroglyphs: find the way the signs face, sound out the alphabet signs, spot the silent ones. A king's name read sign by sign.