HieroglyphicsBy: Adib and Ivan

The Letters They Use Everyday

IntroductionHieroglyphics are formal writing system used

by the ancient that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood.

The people who did the actual writing were scribes

Anthanius KircherAthanasius Kircher, a student of Coptic, developed the notion that this last stage of Egyptian could be related to the earlier Egyptian stages. Because he was not able to transliterate or translate hieroglyphic he could not prove this notion.

Who first knew the meaning of hieroglyphic ?

Hieroglyphics of the most shocking discoveries in modern history was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in the years around 1799.

But Jean Francois can interpreting the text of hieroglyphics and get reward for that

How long Ancient Egyptian used the hieroglyphics for communication ?Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics

about 3500 years (from 3000 BC to 400 AD)

And now pictures they used to represent words came to represent sounds. These symbols, hieroglyphs, or "sacred inscriptions" were adapted for use in everyday life, in addition to their important religious/mystical identity.

How to write it ? You could be writing the

hieroglyphics in following ways : - horizontal, left-to-right - horizontal, right-to-left - vertical, facing left-to-right and - vertical, facing right-left

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How you read it ?hieroglyphic should be read from top-

to-bottom. It is generally an easy task to

determine which way to read the hieroglyphs even if you are unable to understand their meaning. Hieroglyphs with a definite front and back (for example, a person) will generally face the beginning of sentence .

Jean Prancis Champollion

QuizHow to write hieroglyphics

symbols ? - horizontal, left-to-right - horizontal, right-to-left - vertical, facing left-to-right and - vertical, facing right-left

What stone to be mystery for

everybody ?Rosetta

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