The ancient civilization where hieroglyphics were created
Where is Egypt?
100
This influenced the creation of hieroglyphics
What is art?
200
The majority of the population that used hieroglyphics were these people
Who are royalty, priests, and civil officials?
200
Hieroglyphs were in use for this long
What is around 3,300 years?
200
The symbols on hieroglyphics were representations of these things
What are different sounds, objects and ideas?
200
The Rosetta Stone was named after this village
Where is Rosetta (Rashid)?
200
Archaeologists found hieroglyphs carved on these surfaces (name 2)
What are tablets, temples, pottery, and papyrus?
300
This family commissioned artists and architects to design pieces for tombs and temples
Who is the Royal Family?
300
The Rosetta Stone was unearthed by Pierre Bouchard in this year
When is 1799?
300
Hieroglyphics contain about this many characters
What are 700-800 characters?
300
Why is art found on Egyptians temples?
Ancient Egyptians believed artwork gave the dead and living spiritual connections, and drew them closer to the gods.
300
Hieroglyphics are the longest used language system up to date because of this
What is "c. 2900 BC, hieroglyphics reached its final stage of development until it slowly faded in c. 400 AD – 3,300 years?" This made it the longest withstanding language up to date.
400
Most of the art created in Ancient Egypt was intended to benefit these two kinds of people
Who are religious gods and the dead?
400
Ancient Egypt started producing art at around this time
What is the Early Dynastic Period or 3,100 BC?
400
These three languages were found on the Rosetta Stone
What are hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic, and Ancient Greek?
400
Where are Hieroglyphs most often found?
What are tablets, walls, forms of art, and written on papyrus.
400
Champollion used the Rosetta stone to decipher hieroglyphics by doing this
What is "by tracing Demotic words to Hieroglyphic symbols on the stone, then making educated guesses to decode the rest of the symbols?"
500
This Frenchman deciphered hieroglyphics in 1822
Who is Jean-Francois Champollion?
500
The Rosetta Stone dates back to this period
When was the Ptolemaic period?
500
These two meanings mean 'hiero' and 'glyph' in Ancient Greek
What are "holy" and "carving"?
500
King Akhenaten changed the theme of art for this major reason
What is "because religion was changed under his rule from worshiping many gods to just one, the sun-god Aten."
500
Artwork was usually made in ancient Egypt with these materials (name 2)
What is copper, stone tools, sand, hard and soft stones, wood, metal, and plaster, and pigments; often carved and painted materials to create pieces of artwork?