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 text. Lancret's report, dated 1799, was read to a meeting of the Institute soon after . Bouchard, meanwhile, transported the stone to Cairo for examination by scholars. Napoleon himself inspected what had already begun to be called "la Pierre de Rosette", the Rosetta Stone, shortly before his return to France in August 1799. The discovery was reported in September in "Courrier de l'Égypte", the official newspaper of the French expedition. The anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. In 1800, three of the Commission's technical experts devised ways to make