Hieroglyphics

Scribes Scribes could read and write and were sons of powerful people. They went to school to learn how to write. Scribes kept records of the royal family and high priest.

Scribes When scribes were working on documents such as letters, livestock registers, and ledgers they wrote very fast. They wrote on limestone fragments or pieces of broken pottery. They were written with ink using a reed. The scribes wrote reports and detailed accounts according to the king's orders.

Scribes Scribes worked in the temples to re-copy religious text. They also wrote instructions to guide the dead in the afterlife. They wrote magical spells on amulets to protect the living from sickness. Scribes wrote stories, poems, and fables.

Scribes Scribes also drew the night sky. They drew maps locating the constellations of stars. They used these drawings to design a 365 day calendar. Scribes divided it into twelve months with thirty days in each. They added five extra days at the end of the year.

Papyrus is an early form of thick paper-like material produced from the the papyrus plant, also used in Egyptian writing

Characters English is based on 26 characters-- letters. Letters that are combined into words, and then into sentences which tell a story.

*More than 2,000 hieroglyphic characters. *Each represent a common object in ancient Egypt. *Hieroglyphs could represent the sound of the object or they could represent an idea associated with the object.

Rebus A modern type of hieroglyphic writings would be a rebus. A rebus is a picture puzzle that can be "sounded out" by reading the sounds symbolized by the pictures. When these sounds are read aloud together, the statements often becomes obvious. Try solving the rebus below:

Alphabet The alphabet characters are read as the sound of the object they represented. Although vowels were used in the spoken language, they were not usually written unless a word begins with a vowel or where it might be confusing if left out ﾉ like with names. EXAMPLE- In English, words are often abbreviated by leaving out vowels. mtn = mountain blvd = boulevard. When these abbreviations are read aloud, they are spoken using vowels.

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Biliterals Biliterals are glyphs with 2 consonants. Some of them are: sA kA Aw

Reading Hieroglyphics Hieroglyphs could be written left to right. But they were usually written right to left. Which ever way the characters were facing is the may you would read them

Reading Hieroglyphics Columns were read down as we would read lines down a page. The Egyptians liked symmetry. If hieroglyphs were inscribed in a column, they would often inscribe the same text in the opposite column, except with the writing reversed.

Rosetta Stone Found in 1799 by a French soldier in Rosetta, Egypt It was inscribed with three languages 1. Greek - used by the rulers 2. Hieroglyphics - used for important and religious documents 3.Egyptian writing - used by most people in Egypt at that time. It took scholars 20 years to decipher

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