Hieroglyphics

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Hieroglyphics

• EGYPTIAN WRITING

• Hieroglyphs is made from 2 Greek words.
• Hieros meaning holy.
• 2. Glyphe meaning writing.

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THE CONFUSING STUFF!!!

• Hieroglyphs emerged from the preliterate artistie
  traditions of Egypt . For example symbols or
  gerzean pottery fomcirca 4000 b c resemble
  hieroglyphic writing . Writing for many years the
  earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the
  marmer palette found during excavations at
  hieroglyphs modern kawm al-ahmar the wood
  hieroglyph oomes from the Greek adjective
  iEpoy9u01ika not correct spelling

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Rosetta stone

• The rosetta stone was a stone that helped us
  understand egyptian Hieroglyphs when the last
  temple was closed in the 6th century A.D the
  skill of reading hieroglyphs was lost until the
  discovery of the stone in 1799. On the stone are
  three scripts. The bottom section is in greek
  centre in demotic, and the top is in hieroglyphs.
  French arcaeologist jean - francois champollion
  spent many years deciphering the symbols on a
  slab of basalt found at rosetta in the western
  delta .His work on the rosetta stone as it is
  now called was an important breakthrough in the
  translation of ancient hieroglyphics.