This is an introduction to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary, аэфщъas well as twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature It also offers scholars of linguistics a complete grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt Автор Джеймс П Аллен James P Allen.