Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is a handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. A person''s name was a vitally important part of them, and the Egyptians were very concerned that their names should be recorded, remembered and spoken.

ISBN 9780714119762 | E | PB