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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Interesting that you brought this up. Egyptian hieroglyphics weren't read for many years, until nobody alive was able to read them, but texts were kept. Luckily the Rosetta stone was found and used to convert hieroglyphics to more modern script. And the ancient texts could be read again.
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I'm studying part-time for a degree in Egyptology, so yes, I can read Middle Egyptian (the language that the hieroglyphic script is used for). By no means well yet, but certainly the basics. Note, by the way, that "hieroglyphic" is the adjective - the noun is "hieroglyph". So, it is a "hieroglyphic script", but the symbols themselves are simply "hieroglyphs".
Should anyone have a desire to learn the language, the standard book to learn from is James P. Allen's "Middle Egyptian". It's even available as an (expensive) ebook
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