What has been needed for a long time – and is here at last provided – is a layman's guide to the 2nd Facsimile of the Book of Abraham (also known as the Hypocephalus) that takes the cryptographic symbols (both hieroglyphs and pictographs) one by one, explains precisely what they represent in terms of Egyptological understanding as well as in context of the restored Gospel, and shows how they fit exactly what Joseph Smith said they did in his published Explanations in 1842.
