The Lion hieroglyph was used in ancient Egypt to represent the two consonants R+W together. When Alexander the great, a Greek-speaking Macedonian, conquered Egypt, he left it in the care of his general Ptolemy. When Alexander died, Ptolemy assumed the rule of Egypt. He and his descendants ruled the country, all the male rulers being called Ptolemy and all the females being called Cleopatra. They obviously needed some way of representing the L sound in their names, but sound L did not exist in Egyptian, so there was no hieroglyph to represent this sound. The scribes who wrote the inscriptions used the lion hieroglyph to represent the 'L' sound because RW was the closest sound in Egyptian to L. You will often see web pages that give Lion = L, but this is only partly true. The Lion hieroglyph was used in Ancient Egypt to represent the two consonants R+W together. When Alexander the Great, a Greek-speaking Macedonian, conquered Egypt, he left it in the care of his general Ptolemy. When Alexander died, Ptolemy assumed the rule of Egypt. He and his descendants ruled the country, all the male rulers being called Ptolemy and all the females being called Cleopatra. The sound L did not exist in Egyptian, so there was no hieroglyph to represent this sound. The scribes who wrote the inscriptions used the lion hieroglyph to represent the 'L' sound because RW was the closest sound in Egyptian to L. You will often see web pages that give Lion = L, but this is only partly true.
There isn't any official animal to represent ancient Egypt, but I would think the Sphinx.
As a hieroglyph, the owl represented the letter M.
These are called Hieroglyphs. They were used in Ancient Egypt.
the jackal mask represented Anubis, and was strongly represented in funerals
+Lions +Birds +Gazelles +dogs +cats +moongoose +monkeys +falcons Good luck!
Lions yes, tigers no
It was Hathor (:>
its a male with hair
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There isn't any official animal to represent ancient Egypt, but I would think the Sphinx.
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The cow could represent many deities of ancient Egypt from Hathor to Hapis/Apis.
Some of the mountainous regions there did contain lions, where they hunted near the rare watering places.
Taweret was the hippo goddess in ancient egypt
Hippos, lions, wild cats, antelopes, animals like that.
Sometimes it was sometimes it wasn't.
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