Discovering Ancient Egypt by Mark Millmore


On this site you will find lots of Egyptian stuff.


All about ancient Egypt, pyramids, temple reconstructions
and the pharaohs. Free screen savers and hieroglyphics
you can write your name in the ancient script.

There are stories of the great kings & queens. In the pyramid & temple section you can explore the ancient monuments; using interactive maps, photos, drawings, and paintings.

Also check out Rebuilding Temples and see how these shrines, to the gods, may have appeared to ancient eye. There is a basic description of hieroglyphic writing and the Hieroglyphic Typewriter for you to have fun writing your name and sending secret messages

You will also learn about Egyptian numerals and can test your knowledge with some mathematical problems set out using the ancient numbers.



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Egyptian Hieroglyphs iPad

Learning Egyptian Hieroglyphs made easy


More than 800 glyph illustrations including 400 Egyptian word examples and over 300 hieroglyphs from the Gardiner list. Detailed information on Egyptian writing and mathematics, the use of the different types of symbols, how to write your name, how to recognise kings names and the story of the scribe with a video showing how papyrus is made.

The Hieroglyphic Typewriter and Math Calculator with a QWERTY keyboard. Alphabet and number symbols together with a selection of determinative signs. The keys include Latin symbols together with their hieroglyph equivalents and descriptions, which allow you to type messages naturally and at a glance see the translations. You can quickly write names and short secret messages and then with the email function you send the results by email.



The Hieroglyphic Print Machine Version 2 for Windows.


Write secret ancient Egyptian messages to your friends and make greetings cards, T-Shirts and posters. There are hundreds of glyphs including 388 ancient Egyptian words with their English translations. As well as 143 alphabet, syllabic, determinative, numbers signs, decorative backgrounds, cartouches and gods names.

The Hieroglyphic Print Machine
During the New Kingdom the Opet Festival, was one of the most important annual festivals the people received free bread and beer and the celebrations lasted for 27 days.