Friday, March 9, 2012

Hieroglyphics and the Egyptians | 3,000 BC

In the sixth century BC, what three civilizations invaded Egypt?
Persians, Greeks, and Romans



Post an example of the inside wall(s) of an Ancient Egyptian temple.


What was discovered on the inside of the temples?
Carved and painted images


Scholars believe that Ancient Egyptians were inspired and influenced by which written language?
Cuneiform


What is the difference between logographic and alphabetic elements?
Logorams are visual symbols representing ideas or objects, alphabetic came later


The term Hieroglyphic derived from what two Greek words?
hyro- sacred glyphic-engraving


What is a scribe?
School where students learned how to read and write


Who else was trained to read and write? Why?
Military, communicate with eachother



Post an example of hieroglyphics on papyrus.

What is papyrus and how was it made?
Find your way to the after life; Substrate made from reed and plants placed criss-crossed over each other then rubbed to together until flat


What is a substrate?
A layer or something to write on


What were the Books of the Dead?
Find your way to the after life


How did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics become a forgotten language?
No one left to decipher the language
Post an example of the Rosetta Stone.


What is the Rosetta Stone? Where was it discovered?
A rock with 3 languages on it to translate hieroglyphics, Egypt in Rosetta


What three languages are included on the stone?
Demotic, Greek, and Hieroglyphics


Why couldn't the text on the Stone be deciphered?
Some of the stone was missing


Who finally deciphered the text? What was his breakthrough?
Jean Champollion, he matched up the Greek version of the name Ramses and the hieroglyphics


Why does the interpretation of the Rosetta Stone have such significance?
We know a lot more about the Egyptians and Hieroglyphics 

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