Persians,Greeks, and the Romans
What was discovered on the inside of the temples?
Carved and painted images on every wall and surface.
Scholars believe that Ancient Egyptians were inspired and influenced by which written language?
Sumerian concept of expressing words in writing.
What is the difference between logographic and alphabetic elements?
Logograms represent ideas or objects. Alphabetic is used for document or writing.
The term Hieroglyphic derived from what two Greek words?
Hiero meaning sacred, and glyphic meaning engraving.
What is a scribe?
Priests who worked in temples
Who else was trained to read and write? Why?
Students to read and write. Military leaders so they could communicate while in battle.
Post an example of hieroglyphics on papyrus.
What is papyrus and how was it made?Substrate made from reeds native to Egypt.
They are flattened and dried, then rubbed with stones until they were flat.
What is a substrate?It is a stone of some sort.
What were the Books of the Dead?Books that had instructions & spells to help the dead find their way to the afterlife.
How did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics become a forgotten language?
After Persian ruled Egypt there were few people who could read or write hieroglyphics.
Post an example of the Rosetta Stone.
What is the Rosetta Stone? Where was it discovered?
A slab of stone with inscriptions on it, it was found in Rosetta.
What three languages are included on the stone?
Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek.
Why couldn't the text on the Stone be deciphered?
A chunk of the stone was missing.
Who finally deciphered the text? What was his breakthrough?
A French scholar named Jean Francois Champollion, he was able to made the hieroglyphics with a Greek version of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses.
Why does the interpretation of the Rosetta Stone have such significance?
A great deal was able to be learned about Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Ancient Egyptians.
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