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HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING
Title: HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING
Category: History
Details: Words: 460 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING
Right from the beginning the deciphering of the mysterious Egyptian writing fascinated everybody. In 1799 a certain Captain Bouchard of the French Army was supervising work on the fortifications of Fort St. Julian, situated a little more than four kilometers outside the town of Rosetta when hi workmen discovered a stone which was destined to achieve great fame in archaeological history. It was in fact the “Rosetta Stone” which led to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs.
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…showed last 75 words of 460 total…hundred signs which constituted Egyptian writing, each sign representing a sound or an object, was held in great esteem. The names of the kings and queens were surrounded by an outline which archeologists call a “cartouches”. The ancient Egyptians either engraved the hieroglyphs in the stonework of their temples or painted them on the walls of the burial chamber or inscribed them with a reed pen on rolls of papyrus, the antecedent of our paper.
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