Donald Frazer Hieroglyphs and Arithmetic of the Ancient Egyptian Scribes

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This introductory guide for beginners provides an introduction tothe decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing andarithmetic, with a little light hearted humour. All the hieroglyphs portrayed within this book (over 780) are provided freeof charge as keyboard characters. They allow the reader to create their ownmessages, names, numbers and designs which can be easily printed. Thesehieroglyphs are compatible with all software packages that run on bothWindows based and Macintosh computers. This step-by-step guide introduces the reader to the peculiar style ofarithmetic and units of measure employed by the ancient Egyptians, fromcounting loaves and recording the strength of beer to the volume of stonein a pyramid and the recording time.