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The person who inscribed the Rosetta Stone (which was used by Joan Francés Champolion in modern times to break the code for translating hieroglyphics) must be credited with the first documented proof for translating hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BCE.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoYou are clearly very confused. Hieroglyphs is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian writing system, not the language that it represents. Hieroglyphs were used to write the Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian and Late Egyptian languages which were spoken by the population of Egypt from prehistoric times up to the Arab conquest.
Most texts, such as those in the tombs of Nefertari and Tutankhamun, are written in Middle Egyptian.
So nobody spoke hieroglyphs - they spoke Egyptian and the scribes wrote hieroglyphs.
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∙ 7y agojean francois champollion was the first to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics
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∙ 12y agojohn brunnet
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Why cant you translate the hieroglyphics?
You can. You just need to learn the Egyptian language. Thousands of people can translate hieroglyphics.
Who found away to read Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Jean Francois Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
What problems have hieroglyphics caused?
Hieroglyphics? Like ancient Egyptian writing or something? Why would they ever cause problems?!
What hieroglyphics would be found in a tomb?
All of the writing inside a Pharaoh's tomb would be in hieroglyphics because that was the standard way of writing in Egypt at the time.
What would the words 'the world is yours' look like in Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Egyptian hieroglyphics are pictures so the phrase would be a combination of images/pictures.
Why cant you translate the hieroglyphics?
You can. You just need to learn the Egyptian language. Thousands of people can translate hieroglyphics.
How do you translate open in ancient hieroglyphics?
open
What stone was used to learn how to translate ancient Egypt hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone - discovered in the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt - was used to learn how to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
How do egyptians write hieroglyphics?
go to a translator on Google then you can translate anything!
What allowed us to translate and understand hieroglyphics?
Are tools and money and making paper
What do you do after you get the hieroglyphics on sims 2 castaway?
The hieroglyphics are logic skill points so they add to your logic skill points.
How would you feel if you could translate hieroglyphics?
Once you learn how to read and understand ancient Egyptian, the feeling is difficult to describe, but it's a feeling of immense accomplishment.
Why did scholars think the demotic script would be easier to translate than the hieroglyphs?
Well the demotic writing was a much simpler form of writing used by the ancient Egyptians making it easier to translate it. Hieroglyphics were used only for documents making it harder to understand them. However Jean Champollion was able to translate the Rosetta Stone which had hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek. He was able to tell what it meant by comparing Greek to the other forms of writing.
How did you learn to translate hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptian language is taught in many colleges and universities around the world. You can translate a large amount after only two or three classes.
Who were people paid to write things in Egypt?
They were called scribes, and were taught to translate spoken words into pictographs (hieroglyphics).
When did someone translate the Rosetta stone?
I know that Jean-Francois Champollion translated hieroglyphics maybe sometime in the 1820s.
How has the Rosetta Stone helped historians ti understand Egypt's past?
It has helped translate hieroglyphics and other languages.
