Leçons pour apprendre les hiéroglyphes égyptiens

For the first time in the history of Egyptology, instruction has been organised around inscriptions of increasing difficulty rather than around grammatical categories. In order for them to be recognised more easily on the inscriptions, all signs are presented through over 700 facsimiles, ranging from the most detailed graphic forms — in their original colours — to the most cursive. The documents studied are photographs, so that students may apply what they have learned to monuments as soon as possible. All iconography, symbols, gods and figures whose knowledge is useful in order to comprehend the texts are explained and abundantly illustrated. This easy-to-understand and authoritative book is one of the best ways available today to delve into the subject, whether for amateurs who want to discover the beauty of Egyptian writing and learn what the inscriptions say, or for students who wish to launch into an in-depth study of hieroglyphic epigraphy.This second edition of the only course of Egyptian Epigraphy is updated with the last findings of the research in palaeography and grammar, made more accessible to the reader with four new lessons.Renaud de Spens is an Egyptologist and Sinologist. He taught hieroglyphics and history of ancient Egypt at the University of Beijing and at Sorbonne.