AN N EA 270Old Egyptian
Ancient Near East · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Advanced reading class in Old Egyptian, earliest of five Egyptian language phases, to prepare students for independent research on Egyptian texts dating to Old Kingdom (circa 2800 to 2100 BCE). Through close reading of texts in original language and original format, students learn grammar, orthography, and phraseology of Old Kingdom texts as well as tools and methods of epigraphy. Focus on tomb biographies, royal edicts, and Pyramid Texts.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 120A, 120B, 120C, or one year of introductory Middle Egyptian.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.45 · from text- one year of introductory Middle Egyptian
- · could not read "one year of introductory Middle Egyptian" (no course number found)
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses 120A, 120B, 120C, or one year of introductory Middle Egyptian" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
AN N EA 270
- AN N EA 120AElementary Ancient Egyptian
- AN N EA 120BElementary Ancient Egyptian
- AN N EA 120CElementary Ancient Egyptian
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.