Egyptology: The Study of Ancient Egypt

"Hieroglyphs" refer to the characters made by graphical figures of people, animals and objects and they were used to write Ancient Egyptian texts from before 3,000 BC until 300 AD. These text, typically used for religious purposes (i.e. sacred texts), evolved over time into a complex and descriptive form of writing. 10,000+ words have been collected into a 400+ page PDF file, using information found from various sources such as Gardiner and Faulkner. (source: Website)

Resources for beginning readers of hieroglyphic writing.

JSesh is a free, open source, editor for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It's currently quite powerful, and it covers most of the so-called Manuel de Codage.
JSesh is a complete and professionally usable hieroglyphic editor. JSesh texts can be copied and pasted into other softwares (as MS/Word or Openoffice). It is also possible to create pictures in various graphical formats (jpeg, png, pdf, svg, emf, macpict, etc...)
(source:website)

Link to the full text of the work on the Internet Archives site.

The entry includes and explanation of this important discovery and the story of how it led to the ability for current scholars to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.