Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt pages, as well as items specific to the cosmetic palettes of Ancient Egypt. It also explains the Old Kingdom label (Ancient Egypt), (for Pharaoh Den), with some of the oldest used hieroglyph sign examples, and also discusses the signs upon pottery. The English text is 251 pages, and contains a short word glossary for 29 entries, a one-page bibliography, and a five-page index. The Gardiner sign list covers five pages, with the 650+ signs, with hieroglyph topic pages in the "red color" for the glyph and a page number-adjacent, as a location . Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics:
Rosetta Stone later Coptic script. French Orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy had been discussing this work with Åkerblad when he received one of the early lithographic prints of the Rosetta Stone in 1801 from Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French minister of the interior. He realised that the middle text was in this same script. He and Åkerblad set to work, both focusing on the middle text and assuming that the script was alphabetical. They attempted to identify the points where Greek names ought to occur within this unknown text, by comparing it with the Greek. In 1802, Silvestre de Sacy reported to Chaptal that