Featured Resources
This page features the activities that I've added recently. More activities can be found in the Hieroglyphs Resources Archive, Coptic Resources Archive and Latin Resources Archive. See Ten-Minute Hieroglyphs for a new beginners' course.
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Featured Latin Activity
Pliny's Vesuvius letter
(intermediate)
Pliny the Younger's letter describing his uncle's heroic - but ultimately fatal - mission to rescue victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is a compelling text for more experienced Latin students. You can read more about it in my post What to read next in Latin.
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This labelling game helps you practise/ revise some key vocab and quotes from the first part of the letter. Match the labels to the image, and please forgive lack of historicity in details such as ships and clothes!
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Even if you've never read the letter, you can still have a go and can check the translations of the labels here.
Featured Hieroglyphs Activity
Vocabulary for Papyrus Westcar (The Boating Party)
(more experienced learners)
Following on from the Wax Crocodile activities, here's some vocabulary practice to help you warm up before reading the next story in Papyrus Westcar - the Boating Party. As before, it's available in two forms - this time a quiz and an aeroplane game - choose the one you prefer or try them both!
For more about Papyrus Westcar, take a look at my blog article What to read next in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs: Papyrus Westcar (AKA 'Tales of Wonder' or 'King Cheops and the Magicians').
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Featured Coptic Activity
Basic vocabulary 2 - words for things
(complete beginner)
You can use these flashcards to help you learn some Coptic words for things. This activity follows on from Coptic - Basic vocabulary 1.
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There are picture hints and, for those who are still learning the alphabet, the approximate pronunciation of each word is given in inverted commas.
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Students of hieroglyphs might like to see if they can work out the Middle Egyptian versions of any of these words.
These resources pages are a work in progress. They are intended for use alongside a course of study (independent or taught); the target learner level is indicated in the title.
I welcome constructive comments and requests for particularly activity types/ topics - please email me at drthomas@principiaparva.co.uk.​​
I have used JSesh (an open source word processor for hieroglyphs) to write the hieroglyphs and transliterations in some of my games. I'm very grateful to its creator for making this resource freely available to Egyptologists everywhere.
