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Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics. By: Adib and Ivan. The Letters They Use Everyday. Introduction. Hieroglyphics are formal writing system used by the ancient that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood.

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Hieroglyphics

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  1. Hieroglyphics By: Adib and Ivan

  2. The Letters They Use Everyday

  3. Introduction • Hieroglyphics are formal writing system used by the ancient that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. • The people who did the actual writing were scribes

  4. AnthaniusKircher • Athanasius Kircher, a student of Coptic, developed the notion that this last stage of Egyptian could be related to the earlier Egyptian stages. Because he was not able to transliterate or translate hieroglyphic he could not prove this notion.

  5. Who first knew the meaning of hieroglyphic ? • Hieroglyphics of the most shocking discoveries in modern history was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in the years around 1799. • But Jean Francois can interpreting the text of hieroglyphics and get reward for that

  6. How long Ancient Egyptian used the hieroglyphics for communication ? • Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics about 3500 years (from 3000 BC to 400 AD) • And now pictures they used to represent words came to represent sounds. These symbols, hieroglyphs, or "sacred inscriptions" were adapted for use in everyday life, in addition to their important religious/mystical identity.

  7. How to write it ? • You could be writing the hieroglyphics in following ways : - horizontal, left-to-right - horizontal, right-to-left - vertical, facing left-to-right and - vertical, facing right-left Continue on slide 7

  8. How you read it ? • hieroglyphic should be read from top-to-bottom. • It is generally an easy task to determine which way to read the hieroglyphs even if you are unable to understand their meaning. Hieroglyphs with a definite front and back (for example, a person) will generally face the beginning of sentence .

  9. Jean Prancis Champollion

  10. Quiz • How to write hieroglyphics symbols ? - horizontal, left-to-right - horizontal, right-to-left - vertical, facing left-to-right and - vertical, facing right-left • What stone to be mystery for everybody ? Rosetta

  11. The End

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