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Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics is a formal system of writing used by the ancient Egyptians. It is generally figurative, representing real or illusionary elements in a perfectly recognizable form, though the same symbol can be interpreted in diverse ways, based on context.
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How do you know how to read hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text. The text is made up of three translations of a single passage, written in two Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic), and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rashid (a harbour on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt renamed Rosetta by the French during the Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt) and contributed greatly to the decipherment of the principles of hieroglyphic writing in 1822 by the British polymath Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. The Stone is 114.4 centimeters (45 in) high at its tallest point, 72.3 centimeters (28.5 in) wide, and 27.9 centimeters (11 in) thick. Weighing approximately 760 kilograms (1,676 lb), it was originally thought to be granite or basalt but is currently described as granodiorite and is dark blue-pinkish-grey in color. The stone has been on public display at The British Museum since 1802.
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The early native Americans in the area that later became Nevada did not use hieroglyphs, but they did carve petroglyphs - pictures cut into stone. Examples are found on a rock at Carson river, about 8 miles below Old Fort Churchill. These include strange human figures and animals made up of connected circles, no doubt with some religious significance.
Petroglyphs are not hieroglyphs - they do not record language.
Can you spell Alphabet Egyptian hieroglyphics and match then in English?
The Egyptians never developed an alphabet - this is a deliberate falsification on the part of certain misleading American Internet sites. There were many different types of signs used in hieroglyphs, including some that stood for a single consonant sound. These were sometimes used to spell out foreign words and names (such as Cleopatra, Ptolemy and autocrator).
This does not mean that the ancient Egyptians ever used an alphabet - they did not. Those web pages that give fake alphabets in hieroglyphs are simply fooling gullible people. They include signs for a, e, i o and u which are nothing to do with ancient Egypt or hieroglyphs, since hieroglyphs did not write any vowel sounds.
It is therefore impossible to "match Egyptian alphabet hieroglyphs in English".
What was the object called to provide the key to understanding hieroglyphics?
an english-hieroglyphics dictionary
What do sponges lack that make them more primitive and simpler?
Just finshed it on a test. Sponges lack a digestive track, symmertical plan, and nerce cells.
How is demotic writing relate to the hieroglyphics?
For most of ancient Egyptian history there were only two scripts: hieroglyphic text, used for monumental inscriptions, tombs, statues, buildings and so on - and hieratic, which is a cursive form of the same hieroglyphs used for keeping records, writing letters and in mathematical, legal and medicinal texts. Hieratic derived directly from hieroglyphs and seems to have existed right from the beginning; it was usually written in black ink and always from right to left.
Very late in Egyptian history, around 650 BC, a third script was introduced. This was Demotic, which is a much simplified and mutated form of hieratic. Demotic texts do not reflect the hieroglyphic equivalent sign for sign, as hieratic does.
Demotic is from the Greek word meaning "of the people", but it essentially replaced hieratic for writing documents and letters and it does not mean that more ordinary people became literate. It is full of ligatures, abbreviations and peculiar language constructions which make it very difficult to read and almost impossible to transcribe into hieroglyphs - it appears to have been influenced by classical Greek and Roman scripts.
Coptic borrowed six letters from Demotic for its writing system.
How long will it take to memorize numbers?
It depends on the student. Generally, a person must hear something around 20 times to remember it well. Some people take more and some people take less -- if you're really concentrating, you won't have to have that many repetitions.
In general, the harder you try, the less time it takes.
AnswerThere are a number of memory tricks that can cut the time it takes to memorize a list of numbers significantly. See psychological phenomena "chunking," mnemonic dominic system, and mnemonic major system.
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What Egyptian ruler's reign was the beginning of the period known as the New Kingdom?
Ahmose
the answer is Ahmose
How many Heiroglyphics are there?
For most of the period of their use (around 3,000 years) there were less than a thousand signs in general use - only about 700 during the Middle Kingdom, when most texts were produced (and some of those 700 were quite rarely used).
In the Late Period the number of signs increased dramatically to over 6,000, many being alternative forms. The writing system was deliberately made complex and difficult under Greek and Roman rule - there were then at least 25 different signs with the sound value m, while a single sign could have up to 8 different readings.
So the answer to your question is: it depends on the specific time period.
