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Working with Hieroglyphs II: the Alphabet and Basic Nouns

Dr Glenn Godenho explaines how hieroglyphs work alphabetically in this video

As you have seen, as well as being ideograms (pictures of the things they represent) hieroglyphs can also be used alphabetically. This Ancient Egyptian Alphabet will help you in the upcoming quiz activity.

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