Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Did you know Egyptians carved and wrote in stone? Egyptian hieroglyphs are the way that Egyptians communicate with writing. Like English, the are many types, over time there was a new hieroglyphic language was born, like English. That’s a modern way to think about the languages. Ancient Egyptian History of hieroglyphs has been a diverse topic although it sounds simple and useless to the common knowledge. Hieroglyphs are regularly thought as Egyptian writing, nothing more, although there's a lot more behind the hieroglyphs that meets the eye. There is more than one Egyptian text which includes logograms, phonograms, Determinative grams, Demotic, hieratic, and Coptic are all an equal part of hieroglyphs. The change of hieroglyphics was very important

Phonograms, determinative grams, and logograms are the three simplest of the bunch. Logograms mean the representation of words, phonograms means the representation of sounds, determinative grams means the clarifications of meaning. These three hieroglyphs were used to teach children and/or adults that never had an education. Although anyone can learn any hieroglyphic language. “There are three main types of hieroglyph. The hieroglyphic language is based on the phonetic value(s) of the hieroglyph, with extra information conveyed by hieroglyphs acting as logograms and determinatives.”, ancientegpyptonline.co.uk, The script was composed of three basic types of signs: logograms, representing words; phonograms, representing sounds; and determinatives, placed at the end of the word to help clarify its meaning.”

The earliest evidence of an Egyptian hieroglyphic system is believed to be from about 3,300 to 3,200 BC, and the Egyptians used hieroglyph for the next 3,500 years. The use of hieroglyphs in records, on tombs, and in markets is hieratic. This is important because if there were to be pictures researchers would have to know what type of hieroglyphs are being used for, well, research. “Ancient Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics ('sacred carvings') and developed at some point prior to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 -2613 BCE). According to some scholars, the concept of the written word was first developed in Mesopotamia and came to Egypt through trade. Therefor the old text”, and “The text written in tombs was demonic, most known to the writer/carvers.”