what does it mean and what was/is its sigmificance?
2007-08-22 17:47:11 · 5 answers · asked by Marquita :D 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If you would like to understand more about Egyptian Hieroglyphics, than I suggest you look under the following two names: 'Rosetta Stone' and 'Jean-Francois Champollion'.
On the Rosetta stone there were three sets of characters -- Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic.
2007-08-22 19:23:17 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The history of hieroglyphic writing
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Hieroglyphic writing first began around 5000 years ago. Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs up to about 400 AD, after that they wrote in a short-hand cursive style called demotic. Eventually everyone forgot how to write in hieroglyphs
http://www.neferchichi.com/hieroglyphs.html
http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/
http://www.ancientscripts.com/egyptian.html
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/VideoTestbed/Projects/Mummy/hieroglyphics.html
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/Hieroglyphics.htm
2007-08-22 20:18:16 · answer #2 · answered by Josephine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were a form of writing (pictogram) used by the Ancient Egyptians in which stylised illustrations were used to represent words or phrases or ideas.
2007-08-22 18:08:17 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word itself comes from Greek meaning "sacred writing."
2007-08-23 10:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient writen comunication
2007-08-22 17:54:08 · answer #5 · answered by eli00 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋