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Interactive
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Guardian's Egypt: Hieroglyphs: Hieroglyphic Name Translator

For Students 3rd - 8th
Using the keyboard on the screen, type in a name to see how it would look in hieroglyphics.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Virtual Egypt: Kings and Pharoahs Hieroglyphics

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides hieroglyphic translations for many of the prominent pharaohs from Egypt's past. A good resource for instructing students about Egyptian writing and royalty.
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Primary
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Famsi: The Glyphic Corpus From Ek' Balam (2002)

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers translations of hieroglyphs, and therefore history, of the Mayan dynasties and rulers at Ek' Balum in Yucatan, Mexico.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Developing Civilization in Ancient Egypt

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs-a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts....
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Website
Other

Blinden Kuh: Aegypten & Egypt

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site in German provides extensive information on Egypt, including the influential Pharaoh Tutankhamun and hieroglyphics (includes a translator!). Also includes extensive links to other Egypt resources in English and German.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...