The Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
Post an example of the inside wall(s) of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
What was discovered on the inside of the temples?
Carved and painted images on every wall and surface.
Scholars believe that Ancient Egyptians were inspired and influenced by which written language?
By the Simarian concept of expressing words in writing.
What is the difference between logographic and alphabetic elements?
Logograms are visual symbols representing ideas or objects, whereas Alphabetic came later.
The term Hieroglyphic derived from what two Greek words?
Hiero (sacred) and Glyphic (engraving or writing).
What is a scribe?
Priests who worked in the temples.
Who else was trained to read and write? Why?
Military leaders, so they could communicate during battle.
Post an example of hieroglyphics on papyrus.
What is papyrus and how was it made?
Wet reeds are placed criss-cross over each other, flattened, and dried.
What is a substrate?
Papyrus is an example of a substrate.
What were the Books of the Dead?
Books that were commissioned themselves before death. They were instructions and spells to help them find there way home in the afterlife.
How did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics become a forgotten language?
By the time the Greeks and Romans ruled Egypt, few Egyptians were capable of reading or writing them.
Post an example of the Rosetta Stone.
What is the Rosetta Stone? Where was it discovered?
A slab with inscriptions on it discovered by French soldiers. It has the same inscription written on it in three different languages.
What three languages are included on the stone?Ancient Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek.
Why couldn't the text on the Stone be deciphered?
A chunk of the stone was missing and none of the three texts were complete.
Who finally deciphered the text?
A French scholar by the name of Jean Francois Champollion.
Why does the interpretation of the Rosetta Stone have such significance?
We now know a great deal about the Ancient Egyptians and Hieroglyphics.
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