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[Music] [Music] welcome back today we're going to begin our study of hieroglyphs by learning the Egyptian alphabet and how to write our names in hieroglyphs but first I have to give you the answer to the homework question what does this ancient Egyptian sentence say I've been teaching this course for 40 years and I'm always surprised at how consistent the guesses are almost everyone thinks it's about birds and going somewhere which is perfectly reasonable since we see Birds feet and so on but reasonable is not necessarily correct the sentence has nothing to do with feet walking or birds everyone's making the same mistake that the scholars trying to decipher hieroglyphs were making assuming that the hieroglyphs are a hundred percent idea graphic that is picture writing that when you have a bird the text is talking about birds it's not this is what I call the big mistake in fact this sent