Learn
Six paths, from the first sign to your own name in hieroglyphs. Start anywhere.
Memorise the alphabet
Twenty-four uniliteral signs by spaced repetition: each one returns just before you would have forgotten it.
The sign catalogue
1,072 documented signs, each with its Unicode point, its Gardiner number, and what its picture shows.
What is hieroglyphic writing?
The three kinds of sign, the missing vowels, which way to read, and how the script was deciphered — with worked examples.
Words that survived
Words Egyptians still say whose root is Ancient Egyptian, each with its source and how settled the claim is.
Write your name
Your name in signs inside a cartouche, with a breakdown of every sign chosen and why.
The games
Eleven games about Egypt: the glyph of the day, the Pharaoh's Treasure, the Nile Sprint, the Sphinx's riddles and more — new questions every round.