How did hieroglyphics impact us today?

Answer 1

They were some of the first forms of writing, documenting things and ideas. The Semitic script from which our alphabet derives can be traced to origins in the Hieroglyphics. Until Champollion discovered that Hieroglyphics are semi-alphabetic writing, whose words have abstract meaning with no obvious connection to the symbols used to record them, we had no knowledge of Egyptian history, literature and religion.

By an accident of history, in 1799 a large fragment of a stone document from the time of Cleopatra was found in the Nile Delta and somehow made its way into the hands of a scholar, Champollion, instead of being used to build an outhouse. It is inscribed with two languages and three forms of writing: Egyptian in Hieroglyphics and a simplified hieratic script - and Greek. Using his knowledge of Greek, Champollion was able to begin deciphering the Egyptian writing.

Answer 2

Hieroglyphs were one of the first known forms of writing. They used pictures and symbols. Further exploration of this system and other systems of writing led to the development of the alphabet used today.

Answer 3

It has impacted us today because, it supplied us with information that books and the internet could not. Without hieroglyphics we wouldn't no much information about Egypt. So it has supplied us with information about are ansesstors and our past.