Nice explanation @lrbguy -thanks for providing some clarification.
Congrats on the new coin!
There were always alphabetic elements in hieroglyphics as well as ideogrammic elements, so the question can only be answered as to a matter of...
There are two scholarly camps. One group dates the first evidence of hieroglyphs to the Narmer pallet, dating to approximately 3150 B.C....
Right, so I am a week off - well, close enough for a belated birthday.
Celebrating the 220 anniversary of its discovery by french troops.
From Wikipedia: The Coptic alphabet was the first Egyptian writing system to indicate vowels, making Coptic documents invaluable for the...
Coptic is the last phase of the native language. Knowledge of hieroglyphs became lost once the temples were closed in the late 4th century. The...
Technically Egyptian hieroglyphs have no vowels so it has to be provided by the speaker hence Egyptologists "guess" on the pronunciation. Coptic...
The cartouche reads Ptolemaios may he be given life forever and ever Still remember those hieroglyphs from my college days. So my brain isn't yet...
That would be really cool. Apparently it is the most visited object in the British Museum.
Not mine though I wish it was!!!
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele, rediscovered in the western world in 1799, inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis,...
Geta, Nikopolis ad Istrum - Nemesis standing by Wheel. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A tough coin to attribute because of the lack of obverse legend....
Numerian, Feb/March 283 - Oct/Nov 284 A.D. Roman Provincial Egypt Billon Tetradrachm, 8.26 grams, 20.7 mm, Alexandria mint Obverse: AK M A...
Nice haul of coins there!
Looks OK to me, I say pull the trigger and get that siliqua!
Nice coins @furryfrog02 - The Gordie is really a looker. I sat out the auction this month as I have spent my monthly budget on several coins from...
Nice photos. Have a beer.
And here's a Severus and the moon and the stars... [ATTACH]
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