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Dr. Hawass Kicks off Initiative for Learning Old Egyptian Language


Wed 06 Oct 2021 | 08:38 AM
Ali Abu Dashish

On Tuesday, Dr. Zahi Hawass, the world-renowned archaeologist and former minister of state for antiques affairs, announced the start of an initiative, under the slogan of Etakalm Masri- talk Egyptian, for learning and speaking the old Egyptian language.

His courses aim to make new generations -like kids and teenagers-, and old generations aware of the old-Egyptian language and know how to read it.

Different topics of Egyptology will be studied with the help of many experts and professors from different sections, such as learning Egyptian alphabets, propositions, places, numbers, the magic of love in the ancient Egyptian language, ancient Egypt myths and stories, how to read symbols and paintings like an expert, reading old Egyptians books professionally like: pyramids texts, coffin texts, and also the book of dead and many more fields available to learn about this wide culture.

Dr. Hawass announced that he would attend the first lecture of the course talking about the last discoveries he made, and Dr. Ahmed Badran, the antiques and old-Egyptian language professor in the faculty of antiques at Cairo University, will take the lead in the educating and learning process to those who will join the course.