How to Read Hieroglyphs Part 2: Orientation

Colleen Darnell describes how the orientation of hieroglyphs is used within temple reliefs, and then John and Colleen discuss cryptography on the Second Shrine of Tutankhamun and how perturbation can add meaning to an annotation.


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Logo: Santiago (@Elektrodeco)
Music: Phonograph DJ Mac, "The Vamp - Fox Trot," Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra (1919)



For an introduction to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, we recommend Mark Collier and Bill Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (London, 1998)


John's translations of the cryptographic Netherworld Books, including detailed commentary of the Second Shrine of Tutankhamun, appears in his The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity: Cryptographic Compositions in the Tombs of Tutankhamun, Ramesses VI and Ramesses IX (Fribourg, 2004), also available as a PDF on his Academia.edu site.


Image Credits:
Temple of Seti I at Abydos: A. Calverley, Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, (London, 1935)
Second Shrine of Tutankhamun: A. Piankoff and N. Rambova, The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon (New York, 1955)