ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS

WHAT WERE HIEROGLYPHICS?

• Hieroglyphics were a type of writing that ancient egyptians used
• Hieroglyphics used a series of pictures to form sentences and words
• It was only used for religious ceremonies and creating jewelry.

HOW WERE THEY CREATED?

• The ancient Egyptians thought it was bestowed upon them by the god Thoth
• For everyday writing ancient egyptians used coptic because it was simple and easy

WHAT DOES HIEROGLYPHICS MEAN?

• In Egyptian, hieroglyphics means "language of the gods"
• Hieroglyphics are a series of pictures most notably used by ancient Egyptians
• Chinese people used a different form of hieroglyphics that are not pictures, but are still hieroglyphs

HOW WHERE THEY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH?

• Hieroglyphics were translated using the Rosetta Stone
• The Rosetta Stone was a set of rules written in hieroglyphics, coptic, and greek
• They transleated hieroglyphics using the already translated greek.

HOW WERE THEY IMPORTANT TO ANCIENT EGYPTIANS?

• The ancient egyptians used it to write
• They used it to write numbers and mathematical calculations
• It was also used to create jewelry.

WHAT RELATION DID HIEROGLYPHICS HAVE WITH THE ROSETTA STONE

• Hieroglyphics were the first language on the Rosetta Stone
• Hieroglyphics and coptic were translated via the Rosetta Stone

WHAT CONNECTION DID THE EYE OF HORUS HAVE WITH HIEROGLYPHICS?

• The eye of horus is divided into fractions, each represents a mathematical fraction
• The fractions are 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and 1/64.
• An example of how these were used is you could make 5/8 with 1/8 and 1/2, when 1/2 becomes half of eight, 4