Books by Susan Brind Morrow
“This is probably my favourite book of the bunch. It may also be the most controversial. The Pyramid Texts are hieroglyphic inscriptions that appear on the walls of a small, Old Kingdom tomb erected around 2000 BCE in Saqqara. The script is Middle Egyptian, but the story that it tells may actually be much older. According to Bring Morrow, the Pyramid Texts are altogether the oldest surviving body of writing on religious philosophy in the world. The tomb itself was opened in 1880. The text was ignored for quite a while, and then people started to translate it.” Read more...
The best books on Hieroglyphics
Diane Greco Josefowicz, Historian
Interviews where books by Susan Brind Morrow were recommended
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Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction
by Penelope Wilson -
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Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt
by Maria Betro -
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The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition
by Erik Iversen -
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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson -
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The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts
by Susan Brind Morrow
The best books on Hieroglyphics, recommended by Diane Greco Josefowicz
The best books on Hieroglyphics, recommended by Diane Greco Josefowicz
Reading the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt reveals much about the worldview of a civilisation that rose to prominence 5000 years ago and flourished for thousands of years. Here, intellectual historian Diane Greco Josefowicz—whose book, The Riddle of the Rosetta, co-written with Jed Buchwald, tells the story of how the meaning of the hieroglyphs was deciphered in 19th century France—recommends the best books to learn more about hieroglyphics.
