Egyptian Hieroglyphics & the Rosetta Stone

1. Egyptian Hieroglyphics & the Rosetta Stone

2. Decipher the following messages: • 10X • 10Q • 1CE • 2MI • FTW • G2G • SMH • =P • >:( • ;-) • :-/ • :-D

3. Discussion Questions. • Where might you see the types of messages? • What makes this type of communication different from the normal written word? • Why do people use this form of communication rather than writing complete words and sentences? • What are the advantages/disadvantages of using this type of communication?

4. Hieroglyphs • Hieroglyphs is made from two Greek words: • hieros meaning holy • glyphe meaning writing • So hieroglyph means...?

5. Hieroglyphs • Uses many symbols to represent entire words; also has symbols for single letters. • These roughly correspond to the 26 letters of the English alphabet. • The signs we give for the letters 'a', 'l', 'o', 'v', 'x' and 'c' are the closest we can come to the ancient sounds. • Ancient Egyptian has four different 'h' sound, for example, making it difficult to make direct translations.

6. Hieroglyphics • The ancient Egyptians did not use vowels when they recorded information in writing. Thus, two words with the same consonants but different meanings could be spelled the same way. • These signs written together could mean either' boat' or 'taste’:

7. Sense Signs • By adding the 'sense sign’ to the end of the word means 'boat'. • However, by adding the 'sense sign' (an ox tongue) at the end of the word means 'taste'.

8. Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics • To know which way to read, you must determine which way the people or animals are facing. • For example, if an animal hieroglyph faces right, you read from right to left. If it faces left, you read from left to right. • And just to confuse you, sometimes they read Hieroglyphs from top to bottom.

9. Papyrus • Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus reed, which is a water or marsh plant, with tall straight hollow stems. • The reeds were flattened, dried, and stuck together to make pages. • The Egyptians also carved hieroglyphs onto stone and painted them on the walls of the tombs.

10. Papyrus • #1: First, they would pick a plant and cut the outer green part. • #2: Next, they took the inner part of the papyrus and cut it into even pieces. • #3: Then, they would take a board and stack the even slices on the board. • #4: Last, they would take a stone and rub the slices until they were soft and felt like our paper.

12. The Rosetta Stone • Contains three types of text: • Hieroglyphics: Used for important and religious documents • Egyptian writing (demotic): Used by most people in Egypt at that time. • Greekwriting: Used by the rulers

13. Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet

14. Cartouche • In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an ellipse with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name

15. Cartouche

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