![]() ![]() It is kind of fascinating that Egyptians created their own language using images to express words and numbers. I always wanted to see how these certain images were created and what the significance of them. By the Greco-Roman period, there are more than 5,000” (Mattesich). There are around 800 hieroglyphs dating back to the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom Eras. The first full sentence written in hieroglyphs so far discovered was found on a seal impression found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen at Umm el-Qa’ab, which dates from the Second Dynasty (28th or 27th century BC). 33rd century BC) recovered at Abydos (modern Umm el-Qa’ab) in 1998 or the Narmer Palette (c. Proto-hieroglyphic symbol systems develop in the second half of the 4th millennium BC, such as the clay labels of a Predynastic ruler called “Scorpion I” (Naqada IIIA period, c. 4000 BC have been argued to resemble hieroglyphic writing. For example, symbols on Gerzean pottery from c. “Hieroglyphs emerged from the preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. ![]() I want to focus my research on the language and hieroglyphics of Egyptians. ![]()
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