Disc 1. 1. Why Egypt needed hieroglyphs ; 2. The ancient Egyptian alphabet ; 3. How a language becomes lost ; 4. Napoleon in Egypt ; 5. Early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone ; 6. William Bankes and the keys to decipherment --
Disc 2. 7. Jean-François Champollion cracks the code ; 8. Suffix pronouns and the hieroglyphs of Ptah ; 9. The immortal scribe ; 10. Hieroglyphs and the Bible ; 11. Dependent pronouns and the passive voice ; 12. Past tense and adjectives --
Disc 3. 13. New ideograms related to the Gods ; 14. Names of the Pharoahs ; 15. Ancient Egyptian numbers ; 16. The Egyptian calendar ; 17. Names of the Gods ; 18. Negation in ancient Egyptian sentences --
Disc 4. 19. Reading hieroglyphic jewelry ; 20. Palimpsests: when scribes make mistakes ; 21. An ancient Egyptian prayer for the dead ; 22. Translating the Tomb of Perneb ; 23. Translating Tutankhamen's tomb ; 24. King Tut's magic mirror and sarcophagus.