The Ancient Egyptian writing The Ancient Egyptian writing system that is made up of system that is made up of

over 700 pictures and over 700 pictures and drawings.drawings.

• Scribes were men who were taught how to read and write in hieroglyphics.

• Hieroglyphics were very difficult to learn because they includes over 700 different pictures and drawings.

• Scribes were pretty high up in the social order because they could read and write hieroglyphics.

HieraticHieratic

• Hieratic was a simpler, faster form of writing that didn’t involved quite so many pictures or drawings and everyone could learn it.

• Even through hieroglyphics were still used for writing in tombs, scarabs, and inside the temples and pyramids. Hieratics was used to quickly take notes as the pharaoh or king spoke.

The Rosetta Stone• In 1799 Napoleons army

found a stone that had three forms of writing on it, Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphic.

• In the beginning of the nineteenth century Jean-Francois Champollion was able to translate the stone.

• This stone is now called “The Rosetta Stone” named after the place in which it was found.

• The Rosetta Stone helped historians finally decipher hieroglyphics. They are now able to read what is written on tombs, and inside the Pyramids and temples.