Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How, after more than three thousand years, the priests and scribes of Egypt stopped using hieroglyphs.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Introducing hieroglyphs
2:15 Hieroglyphs in Roman Egypt
3:10 The great temples
3:53 Decline of the temples
5:04 FlexiSpot
6:28 Vanishing hieroglyphs
7:40 Roman ignorance of hieroglyphs
8:44 Hieroglyphica
9:28 Mysterious or powerless