Hieroglyphic Dictionary

NOTE: This book is available in pre-publication form. It is in final review and will be available at a recommended list price of $14.95 in the spring of 2013. If you purchase this edition you will be able to upgrade to the final version, when it becomes available, for only $7.45, directly from Museum Tours. User feedback on this version is requested so that the final version will be the best possible.This Egyptian language dictionary has been created to fill a need for a low cost, yet comprehensive, translation aid to hieroglyphs that is convenient to carry around. It contain 4,000 entries with an emphasis on monumental inscriptions. This compares favorably to the vocabulary in Alan Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar" which contains about 2,500 entries and Raymond Faulkner's "Dictionary of Middle Egyptian", which contains about 5,000 entries. This volume's convenient size makes it ideal for everyday use anywhere you happen to be, your local museum or the monuments in Egypt. It is a "must have" for any serious student, Egyptologist or Egyptophile.