Mummy's Wrap

A Scribe's Scribbles About Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Phonograms

Page Strong | February 24, 2010

Phonograms are made up of three types of hieroglyphs: uniliteral, biliteral and triliteral.

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King Scorpion

Page Strong | February 17, 2010

King Scorpion is known mainly from the macehead bearing his ideograms, a scorpion and a seven-petaled flower associated with kingship.

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Ancient Egyptian Love Poems

Page Strong | February 10, 2010

A different grouping exists within the Chester Beatty Papyrus collection that is not mentioned very often. It is a set of poems from Ancient Egypt. Notable among these poems are the romantic poems.

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The Ancient Egyptian Calendar

Page Strong | February 3, 2010

Early in the Old Kingdom, or perhaps even in the Pre-Dynastic period, the ancient Egyptians based their calendar off the lunar cycle.

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