The Hieroglyphic language is really cool! Do you think it is easy to learn? Let’s learn five Hieroglyphs facts for kids.
Egyptian hieroglyphs were a writing system used by the ancient Egyptians. They used hieroglyphs to write on various surfaces, such as papyrus, stone, metal and walls of temples and tombs. Each hieroglyph represented a word, sound or concept and they could be combined to create sentences.
Hieroglyphs were made up of pictures and symbols, which represented words and ideas. These symbols could be combined to create words, and words could be combined to create sentences. They could be read from left to right, right to left or top to bottom, depending on the direction of the symbols.
Not everyone in ancient Egypt could read and write hieroglyphs, only the scribes and priests who were specially trained to do so. They were considered a sacred writing system and were mostly used for religious texts and inscriptions on tombs and temples. They were also used for monumental inscriptions, such as on statues and stelae.
The Rosetta stone, which was discovered in 1799, helped scholars to learn how to read hieroglyphs. The stone had the same text written in three scripts: hieroglyphs, Demotic script and Greek. By comparing the texts, scholars were able to figure out the meanings of the hieroglyphs and the grammar rules of the language.
The hieroglyphs were used for more than a thousand years in ancient Egypt, but their use died out after the 4th century AD, with the spread of Christianity in Egypt. The knowledge of how to read hieroglyphs was lost for centuries, but with the help of the Rosetta stone, scholars were able to decipher it again in the 19th century. Today hieroglyphs are studied by Egyptologists, and some scholars and enthusiasts continue to learn to read and write the hieroglyphs.
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