The middle to new kingdom was a rich time for literature.
A number of love poems and songs were written after the early New Kingdom due to the number of royal historical inscriptions increasing, while private autobiographical text gave way to religious writings.
While Egyptian hieroglyphics become standard, hieratic (from the word priestly) writings became a cursive writing system which was quiet difficult to learn but was used frequently.
The Literature preserved:
Many stories that involve mythological characters are:
The Contendings of Horus and Seth The Destruction of Mankind, in which human beings are spared from annihilation by getting the goddess Hathor drunk on blood-coloured beer The Tale of the Two Brothers, a story of a good younger brother betrayed by his suspicious elder brother.
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Women's voices were strong in Egyptian poetry- e.g the narrator or lover write about the choices of the woman. This strength verify that was held a higher position in the ancient Egyptian culture than other societies. Women may have even written some poetry.
Hieroglyphics
The Hieroglyphics system was likely invented to assist in trade, permitting salesmen to record their good and account for their stock. Later the Hieroglyphics writing was found on tombs that gave biographical accounts on the occupants which give information to someone passing by. Later on more biographies and poems and songs began to appear.
Today, a lot of people focus on the writings on the tombs But what people don’t really pay attention to is the writing’s of everyday life and romance. Love poems and songs of someone’s imagination and affection.

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Funeral proceeding writings
At the start of the New Kingdom (about 1500 BCE), a funerary text was made available to the general population of Egypt. This text is known today as the Book of the
Without the Mesopotamians we would not have all the luxury we have today. Could you ever imagine a world without writing? You may think, life would not be so bad without it, but without writing we would not have stories, we could not write to the bank, we could not text. Two major contributions made to society were the first forms of writing known as Cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code.
Arguably one of the most important discoveries made regarding the historical and cultural study of ancient Egypt is the translation of the writing form known as hieroglyphics. This language, lost for thousands of years, formed a tantalizing challenge to a young Jean François who committed his life to its translation. Scholars such as Sylvestre de Sacy had attempted to translate the Rosetta Stone before Champollion, but after painstaking and unfruitful work, they abandoned it (Giblin 32). Champollion’s breakthrough with hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone opened up new possibilities to study and understand ancient Egypt like never before, and modern Egyptology was born.
Egyptian hieroglyphs were carved in stone, and later hieratic script was written on papyrus. However, Olmec glyphs was discovered on cylinders. Hence, Egyptians and Olmec had different types of writing, and different places to write.
Literature shows us the changes of our society from time to time. It also gives us an idea about people, culture, politics, gender traditions, as well as an overall view of previous civilizations. As a part of literature, poetry introduces us to different cultures with different perspectives. Ancient Egypt and ancient China may differ in terms of culture, politics, economic stability, tradition, or even in religious belief. However, in poetry, especially in love lyrics both Egyptian and Chinese poems portray common area of describing women, social attitudes toward love, sexuality and the existence of romance or selfishness in relationships. . If we look at the Egyptian poem “My god, my Lotus” and the Chinese poem “Fishhawk”, we will see both poems have similarities in describing relationships. Also, they have the similarity of imagining the lovers and their expression of love toward each other. However, both poems have some significant differences in terms of representing female sexuality, gender disparity and the display of love.
The lyric poems in the ancient times are presented in the first person point of view. Since lyric poetry expresses the personal and emotional feelings of a speaker, Sappho’s poems, Abu Nawar’s verses, Egyptian poems, and Neo-Christian Aztec poems explore the emotions of the speakers as they describe their culture, lifestyle, and tradition. These verses depict the passion, love, and perspectives of the ancient civilizations
Women in classical Egyptian, Indian, and Persian literature are depicted as being more than just one dimensional figures. They are displayed as living beings, capable of emotion and exercising power amongst men. Ancient history has shown that in places such as Egypt, woman had equal rights alongside men, in regards to legal and economic rights. At the time, rights were based on economic class and not gender. By having a rights system that mimicked that of men’s rights, Egyptian women were able to show their multi-dimensionality. This multi-dimensionality was best portrayed in love poems such as “The Beginning of the Song that Diverts the Heart,” “I passed close by his house,” and ancient Egyptian literary artifacts, involving stele’s of Ahhotep
It is difficult to fully understand the role of women in ancient Egyptian society because the understandings of the society and government are still incomplete. There are also two other major problems, those being that there is very little source material on women, and the material that has been found was biased by the ideas and minds of previous Egyptologists. The only source material that has survived from great kingdoms of Egypt is material that has been either found in tombs on the walls and sarcophaguses, or carved on major government and religious document. None of the writings on papyrus and other delicate materials survived. This material, which has survived, is the writings of the Egyptian literate male elite. In their writings the also did not show any emotions or feelings, this was not the style of the Egyptian people, writings were purely a record keeping device. Because of these limitations, “It is essential to avoid the temptation to extrapolate from the particular to the general, a process which can only too easily introduce error.”
This was an extremely labor intensive and time consuming process to complete. Because of the amount of work necessary to inscribe the hieroglyphs, the Egyptians developed a simpler form of writing called hieratic. It made use of less detailed and easier to write cursive versions of the hieroglyphs which could be written much more quickly. It was primarily written on papyrus and with a reed brush and ink. Hieroglyphs remained in use in tombs, temples, monuments, and other areas where wall inscriptions or more permanent writing was required, but hieratic became the standard for most other things, such as texts, letters, and everyday uses (Hieroglyphic writing, 2015). An even more streamlined version of the hieratic was developed in the 7th century BCE called demotic. At that point religious scripts were still written in hieratic, but demotic took over the majority of other writing and the knowledge of hieroglyphic writing became limited to only priests (Ancient Egypt, Hieroglyphics,
The final judgment Egyptian papyrus, Figure 1, is an artwork that was created during the Ancient Egyptian period +-3100 BCE - 30 BCE (Harris & Zucker 2013). According to Kleiner (2005:76), this particular artwork was created during the 19th Dynasty, which was within the New Kingdom. During the New Kingdom, the power was passed on to the shepherd kings (Kleiner 2005:67). They brought with them a new influential culture as they came from the Syrian and Mesopotamian uplands (Kleiner 2005:67). This time period took place +- 1539 BCE - 1075 BCE (Kleiner 2005:67). Even though there was a different culture that began influencing the Egyptians, they still believed in the afterlife and the judgement they would have to go through. This is evident within
The first type of messages that we find in the history records were a series of pictures that told a story known as pictographs. From pictographs created more sophisticated ways of communicating through ideographs. Ideographs substituted symbols for pictures of events. A symbol of a star represented the heavens or a peace pipe represented peace. Native Americans and Egyptians are examples of some folks who used ideographs. Chinese characters are still based on ideographs.
The egyptian infinity for their number system, the infinite symbol it is a circle, so you go round and round forever without finding an end.
There are three different kinds of Ancient Egyptian Writing System. Hieroglyphics were the earliest form of Egyptian script and also the longest-lived from 3,400 B.C to 396 AD. The ancient Egyptian word for hieroglyphs were "the words of God" so it is easy to understand why they were used mainly by the priests. Priests used hieroglyphs to write down prayers, texts related to life after death and worshiping the gods. There are three main types of the Hieroglyphics. The first is the logogram, in which a word is written and read by means of a single sign. We can understand what it means by looking at the sign. The second is the phonogram, which is a sign or combination of signs represents a sound. The third category is determinatives, which do not represent sounds and do not have transliterated but they are employed to specify meaning. Hieroglyphics were very complex to understand because many logograms are also determinatives and phonograms. However, Egyptians realized this problem so they add a vertical line beneath the sign in order to remind themselves this is a logogram. After that, they found writing hieroglyphs need too much time so they developed a cursive script called hieratic. Hieratic is an adaptation ...
One of the oldest technical studies we can find records of is known as ciphers. There has been documented use of ciphers going back to Egypt 2000 B.C. Ciphers are also known as many other names such as the more commonly used word cryptography(cryp•tog•ra•phy), cryptography originates from the Greek words kryptos and graphein, meaning ‘hidden and writing, respectively’. Cipher are also none as encryption, or conceal. Ciphers is an ancient science art used to write in secret codes, some ancient ciphers are the hieroglyphics used to beautify the tombs of the rulers and kings that passed away. The hieroglyphics told the deceased life story. As time went by it became more difficult for people to decipher these hieroglyphics. These hieroglyphics would have probably not been deciphered until the computer age if the Rosetta Stone was not deciphered in the early nineteenth century.
Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics for many things including mathematics. They had a decimal system using seven different symbols for the multiples of the number ten. One was represented by a single stroke. Ten was represented by a drawing of a hobble for cattle. One hundred was represented by a coil of rope. One thousand was represented by a drawing of a lotus plant. Then thousand was represented by an index finger. One hundred thousand was represented by a drawing of a tadpole or a frog. One thousand one hundred was represented by the figure of a god with his hands lifted above his head (Egyptian Math History). When writing numbers the higher number always went in front of the lo...
The ancient Egyptians created a very different system of writing than the Sumerians, although it was developed around the same time as cuneiform. However, it consisted of tiny pictures or glyphs, which were used to represent words. As writing was developed and became more widespread, simpler glyphs developed giving us hieratic and demotic scripts, but these are not technically hieroglyphs, but were easier to use on papyrus. Few Egyptians were able to read hieroglyphs by the 4th century.