Compass of the wise

The picture writing of ancient Egypt is the most beautiful ever created. Living close to the land, the Egyptians modelled the lovely symbols of their written lanquage after the living things, the earth, and the objects of daily use in the Nile Valley. A farmer's hoe, a stonecutter's chisel, a flower, a bird--almost anything might be chosen to write their words, and the number of things they chose was enormous. This coloring book contains only a sampling of the many hundreds of different hieroglyphs.