Kids learn about Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Picture writing of this world civilization.

This Spanish-language Friends of Egypt page surveys the hieroglyphic writings of the ancient Egyptians.

Provides hieroglyphic translations for many of the prominent pharaohs from Egypt's past. A good resource for instructing students about Egyptian writing and royalty.

Comprehensive discussion of what the discovery of stairway steps adds to history of the site and the culture. Writings on steps give new insights to Myan politics, trade, war, and the collapse of the civilization.

Students learn about one of the oldest writing systems, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and then create their own hieroglyphics.

Part of a larger site from PBS on Mayan culture, this page refers specifically to the Mayan form of writing through hieroglyphs.

Take a tour with Sir Dig-a-Lot and learn about the writing system developed by the ancient Egyptians.

Site provides information on ancient Egyptian forms of writing. There are charts that show translations of hieroglyphics as well as information on scribes and writing in pyramids.

Discussion of early Egyptian number systems, including hieroglyphics and hieratic symbols and how they evolved.

Experience the pyramids, the Sphinx and Egyptian hieroglyphics all on one page. Students can see colorful pictures and read about the history behind them.

Reference material on the history of the alphabet beginning with a system of representation of sounds as in Egyptian hieroglyphs and then cuneiform. Illustrations and links to related content.

This site offers young students a look at how hieroglyphics were used in Ancient Egypt. Also, gives students an opportunity to write their names and other short messages in Ancient Egyptian. Best suited for grades 3-6.

Offers translations of hieroglyphs, and therefore history, of the Mayan dynasties and rulers at Ek' Balum in Yucatan, Mexico.

Research reports includes an enormous amount of photographs and drawings of stucco hieroglyphs from various temples.

Study attempts to identify individual artists who created temple hieroglyphs and questions why some monuments indicate more artists at work than others.

Excavation reveals murals in tunnels and earliest example of painted hieroglyphic script in Maya Lowlands.

Provides hieroglyphic translations for many of the prominent pharaohs from Egypt's past. A good resource for instructing students about Egyptian writing and royalty.

This is a comprehensive unit on Egyptian Mythology including key terms, Egyptian beliefs and culture, hieroglyphics, pyramids, creation myth, readings, gods and goddesses, and a series of activities and assignments including translating...

This is a very concise and in-depth site about the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt. The site provides background information about the formation of the Egyptian language as well as information about the actual images and sounds of the...

Is ancient Egypt all about pyramids and hieroglyphs? Who are the people who have been preserved for thousands of years as mummies? What do we know about them and how did we find out? Let's take a very long trip back in time to find out.

Featured is a description of hieroglyphics and the ancient Egyptian nameplate, the cartouche. Type in your own name to see what it would look like in hieroglyphics.

An illustration of an Egyptian hieroglyphic next to the shore of a river.

Cleopatra's name, written in hieroglyphics.

An Egyptian figure wearing a headdress with a snake, is seated on a stool with an ornamental design and looking to the left. The figure is looking at hieroglyphics.