HIEROGLYPHICS
GLYPHS
REPRESENTATION OF THE LETTERS
ROSETTA STONE
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. It is a very old form of writing that they starting using as early as 3000 B.C. Hieroglyphics was a very complicated way of writing involving 1000s of symbols.
Hieroglyphics was different from how we write in many ways:
- They didn't use any punctuation.through the New Kingdom and Late Period, and on into the Persian and Ptolemaic periods.
- One of the goals in writing hieroglyphics was that the writing would look like art and be beautiful to look at.
- A single picture symbol could stand for a whole word, called an ideogram, or a sound, called a phonogram. For example, a picture of an eye could mean the word "eye" or the letter "I"
Let's write like an Egyptian