• Core 30 symbol phonetic alphabet
• Large quantity of ideograms
• Unpointed language
• Symbols used as both pictograms and phonograms
• Article PDF download here

Interested in the language of the ancient Egyptians, a microcosm frozen in stone, they called the divine words?

Here is an introductory ten page guide. The download link, above right, gives it in Adobe PDF format. A list of references and recommended further reading is here