Think Like an Egyptian

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Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Originally published in Great Britain as
100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian
by Granta Books.

 

First American Printing, December 2005

Copyright © Barry Kemp, 2005

Illustrations copyright © Andy Boyce, 2005
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Kemp, Barry J.
Think like an Egyptian : 100 hieroglyphs / Barry Kemp.
p. cm.
Includes index.

 

eISBN : 978-1-101-11772-9

1. Bgypt—Civilization—To 332 B.C. 2. Egyptian language—Writing, Hieroglyphic. I. Title.

 

DT61.K442 2005
932—dc22 2005050904

 

 

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The idea for this book came from the fertile mind of George Miller; the carving of my unwieldy English into something more readable and accurate was the task of Bella Shand, both of them of Granta Books. Andy Boyce drew the hieroglyphs.

 

 

 

 

Dates for the earlier periods of ancient Egyptian history are still not settled, although the margins of variation are mostly within decades. The dates cited here are those of
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt,
edited by Ian Shaw (Oxford 2000).