The Basics
What is it called?
What is Hieroglyphics
Who could write in it fluently?
Who is scribes.
When was it invented?
How were they translated?
What is by using the Rosetta Stone.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is a stone with a story written about a king on it that helped translate Hieroglyphics.
How was it written (what did the letters look like)?
What is they were written in symbols of simple things that were commonly used back then.
How long did it take these people to learn it?
What is a couple of years.
When was it used up until?
When is until Egypt's fall (around 30 B.C.E).
About how long did it take to fully decipher them?
What is about a couple hundred years.
When was the Rosetta Stone discovered?
When is 1799 C.E.
How was it written and read (left to right, right to left)? Also, was it written top to bottom or the other way around?
What is it was written and read from either way, but it was top to bottom.
In what places would it be written?
What is it would mainly be written in areas of power, like government buildings. Since most of Egypt didn't know the written language, only scribes would write it. They wouldn't waste their time in places that didn't matter. It was often in law books and record books.
When did Hieroglyphics peak?
When is around 2900 B.C.E.
Who translated them fully?
Who is Jean Francois Champollion.
How many languages was it written in?
What is three languages.
What two things was it primarily written on?
What is Papyrus and carved into stone.
Where in a pyramid could it be found, and what would it say?
Where is near the tomb. It was written to show who was buried there and tell about them.
When was the amount of Hieroglyphic characters reduced?
When is around 2000 B.C.E.
When were they first fully translated?
When is 1822 C.E.
What were the languages it was written in?
What is the difference between Hieroglyphics and Hieroglyphs?
What is Hieroglyphics were the overall writing, Hieroglyphs were just the symbols.
Where was the most writing (what part of Egypt)?
Where is because of its large population and immense power, most of the writing was done near Giza. Also, Giza is the location of most of the pyramids, which have loads of writing in them.
When did they get their modern name?
When is about the year 200 C.E.
What type of Hieroglyphs have we not yet deciphered?
What is Cretan (Minoan) Hieroglyphs.
How did we use this information to help us translate Hieroglyphics?
Since we know Greek, one of the languages, we just translated the Greek into English and then matched up English words with the Hieroglyphic symbols until it was fully translated.