The Heritage of the Americas Museum on the campus of Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego, California,
offers a special program including both a hieroglyphs workshop and
an extended tour of Egypt where students will
practice their new skills, reading the ancient writing
they find on museum artifacts, or in temples, tombs and
pyramids.
Participants may attend the workshop or the tour, or
both.
The one-day workshop, September 25th, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. will teach participants to read the
cartouche names of the pharaohs, their queens, their
nobles and their gods. There are magical formulas and curses
that few can read or understand. With this one day class
- now you can - while others only stand in awe and
wonder what those little pictures mean. Although the study of the ancient
language is the work of a lifetime, you
will learn enough here to quickly translate many sign
groups directly into English. You will recognize sacred
inscriptions on artifacts and in tombs and temple walls.
(You will write your name in hieroglyphs and read
the names of others in the group.) The workshop cost is only a $20 donation
to the Museum. The workbook,
Hieroglyphs for
Travelers
is provided free.
The program is directed by Ron Fellows, CM, Associate Director Emeritus
of the Museum and a member
of the International Association of Egyptologists. Fellows teaches Egyptology in the US and
in Egypt and
frequently leads tours in Egypt that are, in the words of
one participant, “the stuff of dreams.”
This special tour of Egypt is scheduled for February 12 – 27, 2011 when
this small group of travelers will
view exquisite art designed to work magic, to guide
mortals in the afterlife, and to stir souls with its beauty. From
Cairo to Abu Simbel, the group will discover 3,000 years
of Egyptian life and death along the Eternal Nile while
visiting the magnificent Egyptian Antiquities Museum in
Cairo – with the Treasures of Tutankhamon,
and the royal mummies. They’ll experience the Great Pyramids
and Sphinx at Giza, the pyramids at Dahshur and
Saqqara, the ancient temples and tombs at Luxor and
Thebes, the tomb of Tutankhamon and others in the Valley
of the Kings. Oh, yes, they will visit the immense
temples at Abu Simbel in Nubia built by Ramesses the Great.
This group will also experience those rarely visited
sites missed by other groups: the temple at Abydos, with the
famous King List and the Osireion, the temple at Dendera,
with the astrological ceiling - and the beautiful private
tombs at Qurna, Aswan and El Kab.
For those who have previously visited this ancient land, it’s time to
return – and really experience Egypt.
This time we will drive from Cairo through middle Egypt
to Akhet-aten (the Horizon of the Aten), the rarely visited site of
king Akhenaten’s sacred city, now called Amarna - and to
the tomb of the “heretic” king, Akhenaten himself.
But there’s more — for the complete pictorial itinerary of our 16 day
tour of Egypt or to reserve your
place, see our Web site at www.AncientEmpires–Tours.com or call
Ron at (619) 463-2955.
Call (619) 670- 5194 to register for the hieroglyphs workshop at the
Heritage if the Americas Museum,
12110 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon.