Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

What are Hieroglyphs? According to Priscilla Scoville from www.ancient.eu, the word Hieroglyph translates from Greek. Hiero means “holy”, whereas glyph translates to “writing”, or “drawing”. Egyptian Hieroglyphs have remained a mystery to many people for centuries. In this paper, I will talk about the origin of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, the complexities of reading and writing in this mysterious written language, and I will talk about other civilizations that wrote in Hieroglyphs.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs was first found on pottery, found near the Nile river in Egypt, dating back to about 3000 B.C. In Abydos' cemetery, a cemetery uncovered in Egypt, a member of the local elite was buried around 3100 BCE. He was a wealthy man, probably a ruler, and he was buried with several goods, including hundreds of jars, an ivory sceptre and other items. Many of these objects were looted and we know about them due to the approximately 150 surviving labels, which contain the earliest known writing in Egypt.

Egyptian writing is a very hard language to learn. The Hieroglyphic lexicons are called glyphs. Hieroglyphs can be written in any direction, and the direction that a glyph with a head faces is the direction that