This module comprises study of textual sources in the Ancient Egyptian language, written in the hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts, selected for their appropriateness for study for students with existing language background. The module presents a reading programme of suitable textual sources along with critical philological, linguistic and epigraphic/palaeographical discussion thereof for enhancement of existing knowledge of relevant phases of the Ancient Egyptian language and of reading inscriptions in the original hieroglyphic script, as well as developing a progressional competence in reading literary and documentary sources in original hieratic script. Whilst students on this module will have a good existing competence in Ancient Egyptian language and hieroglyphic script from their undergraduate studies, the module introduces the hieratic script for the first time in a systematic manner. Hieratic is the principal script used for Ancient Egyptian document writing from the Old Kingdom until the Late Period. Such documents are usually published with hieroglyphic transcriptions provided by the editor(s) (and studied through such transcriptions at undergraduate level). However, at research level, an ability to engage with the original hieratic is an important research skill in assessing and using primary resources directly and/or to comment critically on earlier editions of such sources.