Hieroglyphics: Ancient Egyptian Writing
Ancient Egyptian Writing
By:
Darius Howlett
EJ Miller
Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphs
are a picture of an object standing for a word, idea or sound used by the ancient Egyptians. There are over 700 hieroglyphic symbols. For example, the hieroglyph for "writing" or
"scribe" is formed as a brush pigment bag, and a palette. For everyday work scribes used a more joined-up version like handwriting. It is called hieratic and it was written quickly.
Demotic
Used by most of the people in Egypt at that time
period.
Demotic :refers to either the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, or the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and preceding
Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek
By:
Darius Howlett
EJ Miller
Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphs
are a picture of an object standing for a word, idea or sound used by the ancient Egyptians. There are over 700 hieroglyphic symbols. For example, the hieroglyph for "writing" or
"scribe" is formed as a brush pigment bag, and a palette. For everyday work scribes used a more joined-up version like handwriting. It is called hieratic and it was written quickly.
Demotic
Used by most of the people in Egypt at that time
period.
Demotic :refers to either the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, or the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and preceding
Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek