How to pronounce hieroglyphic

When hieroglyphics were first deciphered, Egyptologists devised a method of pronouncing the words by inserting a short ‘e’ between the consonants, so if the hieroglyphic signs transliterated nfr, then that would be rendered as nefer, which means ‘good’.

Hieroglyph, meaning “sacred carving,” is a Greek translation of the Egyptian phrase “the god’s words,” which was used at the time of the early Greek contacts with Egypt to distinguish the older hieroglyphs from the handwriting of the day (demotic).

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