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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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What impact did the Rosetta Stone have on the civilization?
The Rosetta Stone let archaeologists understand, read and find out about Ancient Egyptian Civilizations. The Rosetta Stone had hieroglyphics written on it.
What mesoamerican civilization created a sophisticated writing system using hieroglyphs?
the myan civilization
What are the translation of the Inca Heirogliphics into the American language?
The Incas never developed any kind of writing system for their language (Quechua) - certainly nothing that could be called hieroglyphs.
Their only means of keeping records was by means of coloured cords of different length tied together and knotted at specific places to record numeric values indicating numbers of animals, quantities of produce and similar items. These knotted chords were known as quipu - around 200 examples survive today, but in most cases their meaning is lost.
Some people have suggested that the animal and human figures woven into Inca textiles suggest a kind of writing, but there is no clear evidence for this.
How did papyrus benefit modern day society?
Papyrus was the Egyptian version of paper. It is actually called papyri when it had writing, or hieroglyphics on it. With out paper where would we be know? We wouldn't have computers, cell phones or many other devices of our convenience.
It was carved in 196 BC, making it more than 2200 years old.
How did hieroglyphics come about and how did they help early man?
Early man (around 160,000 years ago) did not have any form of writing, so hieroglyphics didn't help them. Hieroglyphics weren't invented by the Egyptians until sometime after 4000 BCE. They came about because the Egyptians wanted to keep written records based on their language.
How many signs are there in hieroglyphics?
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.
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Why was the inscription written on the Rosetta Stone in both Greek and Egyptian?
The Ptolemy's in Egypt were of Macedonian origin, and it was in vogue to include Greek with native languages on official documents.
This civilization invented a form of writing called hieroglyphics?
Actually hieroglyphic writing was invented more than once. The first and most famous instance was in ancient Egypt, some time before 3000 B.C. Independently but sometime later (between 650 and 500 B.C.), the Olmec or Zapotec civilization of Mesoamerica also invented a hieroglyphic writing system.
Who inspired Rick Riordan to write?
Ok,
So, his son has ADHD and dyslexia, and he really enjoyed Greek myths. He would ask his dad (Rick Riordan) to read him a Greek myth every night before bed. When he ran out of myths he decided to write some of his own. Thus PJO was born. I am not sure of the other series that he has written prior to the PJO series.
(I can't believe I could answer this off the top of my head.... yeah, something's wrong with me....)
Hieroglyphs are extremely complex and take a very long time to learn. They were designed to write the ancient Egyptian language, which has many sounds that do not exist in English.
They include a few signs that are classed as ideograms (a picture representing the thing illustrated, such as the picture of an elderly man leaning on a forked stick = smsw, elder); other signs represent a single consonant sound (such as the horned viper for f); some signs represent two consonants (such as a hare for wn); another group represent three consonants (such as a knife for s+sh+m); another group, called determinatives, have no sound value and serve only to clarify the meaning of the word. A final small group of signs indicate negatives, plurals and feminine word endings.
No vowels were written, but clearly these were inserted as the text was read.
Determinatives are extremely valuable for translators, since many words with completely different meanings are often spelled exactly the same; imagine if English were written without its vowels, there would be no apparent difference between the words hit, hot, hat, hate or heat. In ancient Egyptian each of these would have an appropriate determinative sign following it to clarify what was meant.
Sometimes signs are linked together in certain ways to create abbreviations for commonly-used words, or a sign is simply multiplied and overlapped to indicate a plural meaning.
There are many other complications, but this will give you some idea of the complex and unfamiliar nature of hieroglyphs.
How do you write hierolyphics?
- the way u write hieroglyphics is by drawing something that has to do with the letter.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu
In what form of government did priests serve as kings?
As the gods were the most important beings to the early Mesopotamians,priests,who mediated with the gods and divined their wills.
When were hieroglyphics invented?
In 1799 a French captain named Pierre Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone which was carved with the same text in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, and three writing systems, hieroglyphic, demotic, and the Greek alphabet. Farley this was a tremendous piece of luck because it enabled scholars to unlock the hieroglyphic code and without the stone, we would know nothing of the ancient Egyptians, and the details of their three thousand years of history would remain a mystery.
Empire firearms were made by the H & D Folsom/Crescent Arms Co. in the very late 1800's thru the early 1900's. This organization manufactured low cost firearms under a number of different names. You could actually buy the same firearm at a number of different stores with three different names on it. Attempting to determine the age of this firearm is probably a lost cause as all the assets of this group were aquired, I believe, by the Stevens Arms Co. during the early 1930's. All records have since either been lost or destroyed.
I will assume that you would not consider shooting this firearm without first haveing it checked by a qualified gunsmith. I believe most of guns stamped Empire firearms were probably designed in the late black powder or very early smokeless powder era and as such their safety with modern ammo. is suspect.
By trhe way, their were also Empire Arms Co. marked firearms (again made by Cresent Arms Co.) made for Sears. I have no idea if they were the same guns or not.
What was Rosetta stone inscribed with?
This a large stone fragment of an inscription of a decree by Ptolemy V of Egypt.
It provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Since it was written on stone, a sharply pointed stone cutter had to be used.
There are no vowels in Egyptian hieroglyphics. The falcon is often mistakenly used as an A, but this is incorrect.
What did hieroglyphs begin as standing for whole words?
Only a very few hieroglyphs stand for whole words. The huge majority are phonemes (sound-signs) with values of 1, 2 or 3 consonants. Other signs are not pronounced at all, but serve to modify or explain the meaning in some way.
All hieroglyphs are pictures of something: birds, animals, humans, pottery, furniture, canals, towns and so on, but in most cases it is their sound that is important, not what they represent.
What was Nefertiti before she married Akhenaten?
Some scholars believe that Nefertiti was the daughter of Akhenaten vizier Ay, who later became pharaoh when he married Tutankhmen's widow, Ankhesenamen. Other scholars also believe that she is the Mitanni princess Tadukhipa, but it is not a certainty whom her parents really where.
