I've had some comments on a short I released recently, telling me that Egyptian hieroglyphs are actually Old Welsh, and that Welsh is the hieroglyphic language of the Pharaohs. This is, to be blunt, not true. However, a theory has been developed that claims to be able to use Old Welsh to decipher the hieroglyphic writings of Ancient Egypt, and there's even a book on the subject.
Seeing as this has now appeared on my radar, I feel it my duty as your Friendly Neighbourhood Welshman to have a look at this, maybe do a bit of a debunk, and show you why good scholarship always allows for constructive criticism, uses critical source analysis to sift the wheat from the chaff from the Nile papyrus seed, doesn't simply make things up when the hypothesis doesn't fit the evidence, and certainly doesn't ignore three centuries of scholarship on Ancient Egyptian language and culture to try to prove that Geese are Wise and lions are abundant!

Confused? 'Rargoledig, you blooming well will be, hogia bach! Strap in and get yourselves a panad. And remember, keep the comments respectful: real people and real ideologies are involved here!

Big thanks to Lauren for all of the help on this video. You rock!

A couple of interesting Egyptology related bits and pieces:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transli...
https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towa...

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