Hieroglyphs

With this dissertation, I intend to fill a gap in scholarly understanding of Egypt's place in early modern European thought. In fact, the question as to why at the end of the seventeenth century the Neoplatonic view of Egypt was subjected to a radical criticism remains unanswere…

The current scholarly terminology for the incomplete hieroglyphs phenomenon of the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period needs an update. The “incomplete hieroglyphs system” focuses solely on the modification of the signs. The practical element must be acknowledged …

This dissertation applies Afrocentric methods of decipherment to a sacred symbol selected from the ancient Egyptian language of Mdw Ntr (Words of God). The chosen symbol is transliterated by Egyptologists as neb and translated ideographically as lord, master. My purpose is to de…

Jean-Baptiste Adanson was a French interpreter who spent ten years employed at the French consulate in Egypt between ca. 1775 and 1785. Recognizing a need for accurate copies of genuine Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, Adanson employed his artistic skill to document a number …

Writing a history of the development of the ancient Egyptian mind, wrote the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt a century and a half ago, "is an impossibility." While the ancient Egyptian civilization came to an end thousands of years ago, traces of their environment, art, archite…