How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself
by Mark Collier and Bill Manley · University of California Press / British Museum Press
Self-teaching course in Middle Egyptian built around real inscriptions in the British Museum. Each chapter adds sign groups and grammar, then sets exercises on funerary stelae and tomb scenes, with answer keys and sign lists.
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