Explore how an ideogram can be used to write the word for the thing it depicts, and learn some new multiliteral signs.

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.

What's it like to learn Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs? What are the challenges and how can you overcome them?