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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hieroglyphic
An illustration of an Egyptian hieroglyphic next to the shore of a river.
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Virtual Egypt: Kings and Pharoahs Hieroglyphics
Provides hieroglyphic translations for many of the prominent pharaohs from Egypt's past. A good resource for instructing students about Egyptian writing and royalty.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Seated Egyptian Figure With Hieroglyphics to the Right
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.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hieroglyph
The earliest known Egyptian writing: a picture story of the falcon king.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Hieroglyphics, Cartouche of Cleopatra
Cleopatra's name, written in hieroglyphics.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Rosetta Stone
A fragment of an Ancient Egyptian text, which provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Hieroglyphics
This site from the Alien Travel Guide provides information on the different customs of Egyptian Theatre. There is also a hieroglyphic of Egyptians dancing. Set up as a slide show, user may also click through a variety of other theatre...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Champollion
Portrait of Jean-Francois Champollion, a French scholar and decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Portion of Rosetta Stone
In the Nile valley there had been found a few ancient inscriptions, carved upon stone in unknown characters, but no one could read them. The, about 1800 A.D., some soldiers of Napoleon in Egypt, while laying foundations for a fort, found...
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of a Man
The statue represents a man in a very special seated posture. There are a few hieroglyphic signs on the base beside the foot of the statue.
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Eternal Egypt: Ankh Amulet
This blue faience amulet represents the hieroglyphic sign ankh, which means "life." It was depicted on tomb and temple walls with gods holding it in their hands or close to the noses of kings and other deceased people to give them the...
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Eternal Egypt: Magical Statuette of Yuya
The figure is inscribed with two vertical lines of hieroglyphic text from spell number 151 of the Book of the Dead. The statuette is made of cedar wood and is completely enveloped in a wrapping like a mummy. The figure wears a striped...
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Eternal Egypt: Naos of Nakht
A naos, or shrine has a beautiful facade decorated with bright colors. The doorframe is adorned all round with hieroglyphic inscriptions and a bull. The roof is decorated by an inscription stating that Nakht was "venerated by the god...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Khufu
A stela of grey granite decorated with hieroglyphic signs and the name of King Khufu inscribed in the royal cartouche. This is considered to be one of the rare examples of a cartouche belonging to this king.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Ptah Nefer Her
A statue representing an important dignitary of the Fifth Dynasty, wearing a long wig that hangs to his shoulders and partly hides his ears; a collar and a short kilt inscribed with his name and his titles. He is seated on a backless...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Nesptah
A winged sun disk dominates the rounded top of this stela. The hieroglyphic text on the lower part of the stela honors the dedicator.
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Eternal Egypt: Block Statue of Khnum Ib Re
This statue is an idealized representation of Khnum-Ib-Re. A hieroglyphic text appeals to the living to recite an offering formula for his sake.
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Eternal Egypt: Standing Statue of Inty Shedu
The statue depicts Inty Shedu standing, wearing a short wig painted black, a broad blue and white collar, and a short kilt. Hieroglyphic signs on the base give his names and titles.
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Kha Em Maat
The stela of Kha-em-maat has a rounded top and is divided into four registers. The first register is decorated with the winged sun disc for the protection of the owner of the stela. Another register shows an offering scene to the cow...
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Eternal Egypt: Lintel of Senefru Nefer
This lintel, a stone or beam above a door, was taken from the door of Senefru-Nefer. He sits on a chair facing hieroglyphics that give an offering formula, the name of King Djedkare, and the name and titles of Osiris.