Train as a scribe in ancient Egypt! Learn picture signs that stand for sounds, then read and write words with them. Can you crack the royal names like the famous code-breaker Champollion?
📚 Lessons
📜 Your sign chart
Our signs are emoji pictures standing in for real hieroglyphs (like the owl for M and water for N). Real scribes used hundreds of signs!
LESSON 1
📜 SIGN CHART
Looking at the chart counts as a hint.
👑 YOUR CARTOUCHE
Pharaohs wrote their names inside an oval called a cartouche. Type your name to see it in our signs!