HIEROGLYPHICS

HISTORY OF HIEROGLYPHICS

HISTORY

• In 3000bc hieroglyphics were first used
• Hieroglyphics were lost to the midst of time, the Rosetta Stone was found
• Later in time scribes made a new and faster way of writing hieroglyphics which was called hieratic

PURPOSE

• A purpose of hieroglyphics was to look pretty
• Another purpose was so that scribes could record information because scribes thought that recording information was important
• The last purpose was so that they could have a written language

The Rosetta

• The Rosetta stone had languages carved into it.  languages were Greek, hier
• The Rosetta stone had every word carved into it in 1799
• French soldiers discovered the Rosetta stone when they wee building a fort.

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