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What is hieroglyphics?

• picture-writing or sacred symbols
• Hieroglyphics is the language Egyptians used to
  write things down history, stories,
  instructions, blessings, and evencurses!

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How is hieroglyphics different from our
alphabet?

• There are only 24 symbols (no x and no c).
• They used different letters to substitute
• Us c Egyptian k
• Us x Egyptian ks
• Us v Egyptian f
• Us u Egyptian w

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AND

• Hieroglyphics can be written and read
• Up and down!
• Left to right!
• Right to left!
• How can you tell which way to read?
• Read in the direction that the characters are
  facing if theyre looking to the right, read
  from left to right!

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How did we learn how to read hieroglyphics?

• In 1799, a French military officer found the
  Rosetta Stone sunk in some mud.
• The Rosetta Stone had 3 kinds of writing on it
  Hieroglyphics, Demotic (everyday Egyptian
  language), and Greek.
• In 1821, Jean Francis Champollion began
  translating the Egyptian writings from his
  knowledge of Greek. It had taken him 10 years to
  figure out the pictures were pieces of language!

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Where do we find hieroglyphics?

• ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!
• Pieces of pottery
• Pyramids in passages, on walls, on stones
• Papyrus scrolls

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Arabian Camel or Dromedary (These are found
in Egypt and other African countries.)
 
 
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The first course of filling blocks will now be
put in their places. The brigades will begin
from the four sides, joining the blocks to the
kernel of the plateau that has remained enclosed
in the marked perimeter.From there they will
proceed outward, until arriving close to the
perimeter line.At that point, the first coating
blocks will be put on the line of the perimeter.
(see fig. 2)  
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