Understand how single-letter signs can act as 'phonetic complements' to support multiliteral signs in hieroglyphic writing, and learn some more multiliteral signs.

Learn about multiliteral signs (hieroglyphs that represent more than one consonant) and practise using sign lists.

Understand how determinatives are used in hieroglyphic writing, meet some common determinatives, and learn how to use standard sign lists.

Hieroglyphs can be written right to left or left to right, in rows or columns. Learn how to determine direction of writing and how to decide the order in which to transliterate.