The House of the Net: The Magical Symbolism of the Hieroglyphs

by Wendy Berg

When Jean-Fran?ois Champollion rediscovered how to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century he described them as "....a complex system, a writing that is figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all within the same text, a single sentence, I would even say a single word." Since then, although his discoveries have led to the translation of most of the ancient Egyptian texts, the emphasis in modern scholarship is to regard the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908011912
• ISBN13: 9781908011916
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Skylight Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"