{"id":518876,"date":"2010-04-07T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5317994460049289324"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:42:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:42:39","slug":"book-review-hieroglyph-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518876","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Hieroglyph Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/januarymagazine.com\/2010\/04\/art-culture-hieroglyph-detective-by.html\">January Magazine<\/a> (David Middleton)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Picture this: you wake up deep inside a pyramid with only a single clue  as to how you got there: there are hieroglyphs plainly visible on the  wall but &#8212; alas! &#8212; you have no way to read them. What an Earth do you do?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0811869857\/ref%3Dnosim\/januarymagazi-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/januarymagazine.com\/uploaded_images\/hiero-744859.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"164\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a>Well, if  you\u2019re lucky and had a bit of foresight before heading out on your  locked-in-pyramid adventure, you will have packed a copy of Egyptologist  Nigel Strudwick\u2019s handy field guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0811869857\/ref%3Dnosim\/januarymagazi-20\"><i>Hieroglyph  Detective: How to Decode the Sacred Language of the Ancient Egyptians<\/i><\/a>  (Chronicle Books). With an extra bit of luck, you\u2019ll have had time to  study it on the plane during your journey. Or the barge, as the case may  be.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, of course: while most of us are quite unlikely to  find ourselves awakening in a tomb, there is still a place in the world  for this innovative and expertly creative little book. From the  introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The aim of this book is to  provide a practical, easy-to-follow guide to Egyptian hieroglyphics,  giving readers sufficient grounding in the pictorial script to enable  them to decipher for themselves some of the many inscriptions they will  encounter while pursuing their interest in this fascinating  civilization.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p><i><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5317994460049289324?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January Magazine (David Middleton) Picture this: you wake up deep inside a pyramid with only a single clue as to how you got there: there are hieroglyphs plainly visible on the wall but &#8212; alas! &#8212; you have no way to read them. What an Earth do you do? Well, if you\u2019re lucky and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}