Alan Gardiner

Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879 – 1963) was an English Egyptologist and linguist. He created a list classifying common hierogylphic signs and their variants.^[1]

Behind the scenes

The language that is spoken in the background by the crowds in Assassin's Creed: Origins is largely based on Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar.^[2]

Appearances

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt (mentioned only)

References

↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Number of Hieroglyphs
↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Recreating the Egyptian Language

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt

People

Mythical	Amun • Anubis • Apis • Bastet • Hathor • Horus • Iset • Khnum • Neith • Nephthys • Osiris • Ptah • Ra • Sekhmet • Serapis • Sheshat • Seth • Sobek • Thoth \| Apollo • Asclepius • Cyrene • Demeter • Hercules • Nike • Pan • Perseus • Zeus \| Fortuna

29th-12th century BCE	Djoser • Hetepheres I • Imhotep • Sneferu \| Djedefre • Khafre • Khufu • Menkaure • Shepseskaf \| Mereruka \| Mentuhotep II \| Amenemhat III \| Amenhotep II • Hatshepsut \| Amenhotep III • Thutmose IV • Tutankhamun \| Ramesses II

7th-1st century BCE	Battos Aristottle \| Amasis II • Arcesilaus II • Pythagoras \| Herodotus • Pindar • Socrates \| Alexander the Great • Aristippos • Aristotle • Deinokrates • Eubotas of Cyrene • Philip II • Plato \| Berenice II • Eratosthenes • Euclid • Herophilos • Kallimachos • Ptolemy I Soter • Ptolemy III Euergetes \| Ptolemy V Epiphanes • Ptolemy VIII Physcon \| Achillas • Arsinoë IV • Augustus • Caesarion • Cleopatra • Ganymedes • Julius Caesar • Mark Antony • Mithridates • Octavia • Pompey • Pothinus • Ptolemy X Alexander I • Ptolemy XII Auletes • Ptolemy XIII • Ptolemy XIV • Spartacus

1st-12th century	Andrew the Apostle • Plutarch • Tiberius \| Hadrian • Marcus Aurelius • Trajan \| Diocletian \| Hypatia • Theodosius I \| Justinian I \| Al-Ma'mun

18th-21st century	Napoleon Bonaparte \| Auguste Mariette • Gaston Maspero • Giovanni Battista Caviglia • Jean-François Champollion • Karl Richard Lepsius \| Ahmed Youssef • Alan Gardiner • Jean-Philippe Lauer • Mark Lehner \| Jean-Claude Golvin