What is Liam in hieroglyphics?
There is no direct translation of the name "Liam" in Egyptian hieroglyphics, as it is an Irish name of Gaelic origin. Hieroglyphics were used by the ancient Egyptians to represent their own language and names.
What are 4 responsibilities that a scribe had in ancient Egypt?
1: He must be able to eat a horses dick in one bite
2: He had to be raped at least once by a elephant
3: He has to be a transvestite
4: He must be able to get a boner from watching a gorilla masturbate
the sh was represented by a horizontal rectangle, called a "garden pool"
Hieroglyph are pictures that stand for different words or sounds
Who are the ancient African nubian princesses?
A Nubian princess is defined as a dark skinned African women who is beautiful. Some famous African women who could be considered Nubian princesses would be Queen Amenirdis I, Queen Amanishaketo and Ahmose-Nefertari.
What is the Rosetta stone and how has it helped your understanding?
The Rosetta Stone is a stone tablet that has a King's decree inscribed on it in three languages. The three repetitions are Greek, a later Egyptian and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics written one above another. Because it has essentially the same text written in three languages it was the key to translating ancient hieroglyphics which, until the discovery and translation of this writing, was a cryptic mystery.
How did Jean-François Champollion die?
Jean-François Champollion supposedly died of a stroke (CVA, cerebrovascular accident). When he came back from Egypt in December 1829, he was not in good health, suffering gout, tuberculosis, and probably Schistosomiasis (a parasitic disease also known as snail fever or bilharzia).
How has the Rosetta stone help historians understand Egypts past?
It enables us to read ancient Egyptian writing.
How was hieroglyphics created?
The Ancient Egyptians writing was called hieroglyphics or hieroglyphs, just like ours is the alphabet.
The Egyptian letters or symbols and their origins were quite complex.
Some symbols represented letters or groups of letters.
Others represented ideas like an action, an animal, an object, etc. These are called determitives(they are placed after the written in letters version of the word, and clarify the meaning of the words).
An upright stone slab that is engraved or inscribed is called?
An upright stone slab is called a Stele (in the Middle East). If you're looking for the general term it's headstoneor a megalith.
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Who helped archaeologists learn how to read hieroglyphics?
Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphics by using the Rosetta stone, which enabled everyone to learn how to read them.
Which methods of communication was available in olden days?
Well it all depends, on just what you mean by "olden", there was many communication methods: Messengers, Pegeons that carried notes, some say Indians used to use smoke as a form of communication. The is all i can remember for now hope it helped
Why did the pharaohs call themselves gods?
They called themselves Gods because they believed when they were crowned Pharaoh a God came into them or was there parents. Or that when they were born a God gave them powers to choose things and be the true ruler. That is why the called themselves Gods they believed they actually were part of a God.
Is there a hieroglyphic alphabet?
Yes, most people don't realize that part of Egyptian writing is phonetic.
Twenty-four uniliteral signs make up the so-called hieroglyphic alphabet. Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not indicate vowels, just like Arabic and Hebrew.
There are also 2 other Egyptian Hieroglyphic alphabets: a bilateral one (each letter represents 2 sounds), and a trilateral one (each letter represents 3 sounds).
How would you summarize writing in ancient Egypt?
I would describe it as artistic, beautiful, complex, decorative, difficult, variable, traditional, pictorial, mixed, puzzling, attractive, unusual, neatly arranged, regulated, expressive, formulaic, prestigious, conventional and exclusive.
What are the 3 languages used in hieroglyphics?
Your question indicates that you have misunderstood what you have read or been taught.
Hieroglyphs (a noun - only Americans call them "hieroglyphics", which is an adjective form) were used in ancient Egypt to record their own language and no other. Two other scripts (Hieratic and Demotic) evolved from hieroglyphs but still record the ancient Egyptian language.
A decree recorded on the Rosetta Stone is written twice in ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphs and Demotic script) and once in the Greek alphabet - this enabled scholars to compare the known Greek words with the unknown Egyptian equivalents and begin to make a translation.
Other cultures used hieroglyphs (otherwise simply known as glyphs), including the Maya, the Hittites and the early Indus Valley culture; all were used to record the language of the people concerned and there is absolutely no connection between the different scripts.
What object is the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt?
The Rosetta stone was a big help in deciphering the language
It was written in three languages, Heiroglyphs, Latin and Demotic (another Egyptian dialect)
It helped a great deal as people already understood some heiroglyphs and using the latin and demotic they could see patterns and which symbol could be which letter
What were some advantages to using hieroglyphic writing?
Hierglyphics were used for writing. They had lots of symbols and pictures.
What object did french soldiers discover in 1799 to read hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone. ( May need correction )
Why did egyptians write on walls?
because in the first place why do we assume its the egptians,i believe it was the Immaculate Conception caputured by these so called myans of torture;it goes back in the begging of time virgin Mary was of a child also and yet we tend to forget her presence,she is of this universe and is the universe.so do we really think that the egyptians wrote drew build all.no i believe the virgin Mary was captured and was slaved in the begging of time she was trying to tell us in her own way and words etc. etc. until this day.
What religon did the Hopewell American Indians believed in?
many gods like sun god rain god crop god etc
Why did Egyptians farmers use irrigation?
To provide the crops with enough water for strong, healthy plants when natural precipitation is lacking.
Who was the last pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the kings?
No one knows exactly who, as we may have not found all of the tombs. However the current theory is Khufu.