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Does anyone know where the earliest examples of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics have been found and approximately how old they are.

2007-02-05 09:02:47 · 4 answers · asked by sabrina 5 in Arts & Humanities History

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"Writing appears in Egypt around this time (c. 3,150 B.C.), contemporary with the series of kings--Scorpion, Ka, and Narmer--who reigned over a united Egypt before the First Dynasty. These sovereigns are confused in the lists of kings under the general label of the original semi-divine kings, whose presence has been confirmed by archaeology. Although it is archaic and rudimentary, the Egyptian writing of this time differs from the Sumeric tablets in that it has all the characteristics of the mature hieroglyphic system. The already fixed code recapitulates a nearly complete panoply of alphabetic and multiconsonantal signs, as well as the other categories of graphemes: ideograms, and determinatives (classifying signs which have no phonetic value)."

2007-02-05 11:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0 0

Well hieroglyphics were used as the writing system in ancient egypt, there are different ways of writing it depending if its hand writing style (business style) or the stuff you see on the walls of tombs . The earliest example are dated back to about 3100 bce at least thats what most scholars think, its just their alphabet it was created so that they had a way of keeping records.

2007-02-05 09:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by Inti 3 · 1 0

the earliest examples come from abydos and are dated from 3400-3200 B.C.

2007-02-05 11:45:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

thir was the coptic language that we pray with in some great churchs

2016-03-29 06:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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