Reading hieroglyphs, in one afternoon
A friendly, hands-on workshop with an Egyptologist who promises that, by tea, you will be able to read your own name on a real object in the gallery.
We start in a quiet seminar room with paper, ink, and a printed cheat sheet. After an hour you can write your name in hieroglyphs. After two hours you can recognise a king's cartouche on sight.
The third hour is spent in the galleries themselves, where you will read — out loud, with help — a short inscription on an actual object in the New Kingdom rooms. You leave with your inked name on hand-pressed papyrus.
Itinerary, with timings.
- 00:00
Seminar room
Sounds, signs, a brief history of the script.
- 01:00
Your name
Practice strokes, ink, the first finished cartouche.
- 02:00
In the galleries
Reading a short inscription on a real object.
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