Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (March 29, 1879 Eltham - December 19, 1963 Oxford) was one of the premier British Egyptologists of the early and mid-Twentieth century. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Eltham is a district in the London Borough of Greenwich. It is a suburban development situated east south-east of Charing Cross. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any Archaeologist, Historian, linguist, or Art historian who specializes in The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of "The Royal Canon of Turin" and his seminal 1961 work Egypt of the Pharaohs, which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication. The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon is an Hieratic Papyrus thought to date from thereign of Ramesses II, now in the Museo

Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List. Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology" Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language most closely related to the Berber, Semitic, Somali and Beja languages Middle Egyptian is the typical form of the Egyptian spoken from 2000 BC to 1300 BC (after Old Egyptian and before Late Egyptian) Egyptian hieroglyphs (ˈhaɪərəʊɡlɪf from Greek grc-Grek ἱερογλύφος " sacred carving " also hieroglyphic = grc-Grek See Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian for a list of single-phoneme hieroglyphs Publishing Egyptian Grammar produced one of the few available hieroglyphic printing fonts.

In 1915 Gardiner was also able to crack the so-called Proto-Sinaitic writing system by deciphering the "B'alat inscriptions". Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Middle Bronze Age alphabets are two similar Undeciphered scripts dated to be from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BCE and believed to be ancestral

Important publications

• The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 334 recto). Leipzig, 1909 (reprint Hildesheim - Zürich - New York, 1990).
• "New Literary Works from Ancient Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1 (1914), 20-36 and 100-106. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology or JEA ( is a scientific journal containing scholarly articles and reviews of recent books of importance to Egyptology
• Notes on the story of Sinuhe. Paris, 1916
• "The Tomb of a much-travelled Theban Official", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 4 (1917), 28-38.
• "On Certain Participial Formations in Egyptian", Rev. ég. N. S. 2/1-2 (1920), 42-55.
• "The Eloquent Peasant", JEA 9 (1923), 5-25.
• Egyptian Grammar. Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. 3rd Ed. , Rev. London: Oxford University Press, 1957 (1st edition 1927). ISBN 0-900416-35-1
• "The Earliest Manuscripts of the Instruction of Amenemmes I", Mélanges Maspero I. 2, 479-496. 1934
• Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Vol. I—III. London, 1947.
• The Ramesseum Papyri. Plates (Oxford 1955)
• The Theory of Proper Names: A Controversial Essay. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

See also

• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Pharaoh

External links

• Alan Gardiner bio

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