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Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare. This important soft cover volume is 360 pages in length. This attractive Guide features 53 articles by leading authorities, a map of Egypt, numerous graphs and charts, and over 130 color text figures. Our copy is brand new, in pristine condition, and is still sealed in shrink wrap. Photographs are available upon request. "What do we know about the writings of ancient Egypt, two hundred years after Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs? This Guide answers the question in an easily accessible format, presenting the current state of knowledge on the different scripts that were used in the Land of Pharaohs. The reader will find over fifty articles written by specialists, presenting the diversity of scripts in time and space, explaining their main organizational principles, and describing the main contexts in which they were used. The Guide begins by offering an overview of the scripts of Egypt, from the appearance of hieroglyphs up to the introduction of Arabic writing".…