Hieroglyphic Research Paper

Introduction-The history and beginning of Egyptian Hieroglyphic The Egyptian Hieroglyphic started off as a writing system of ancient Egypt that consisted of 500 common signs known as hieroglyphic. The word "hieroglyphic "originates from 2 Greek words meaning "sacred carving". This is because the earlier Egyptian writing was craved on stones. Each sign in the system is a hieroglyph and the entire system is called hieroglyphic. This particular hieroglyphic writing system has used more than 600 symbols, mostly are pictures of existing objects within the world of ancient Egyptians. Every symbol represented one or more sound in the Egyptian language. For example, the picture of an owl represented the same sound like our letter M. Unlike the Mesopotamian cuneiform or Chinese characters, which ‘s the beginning can be traced from over several hundred years back, hieroglyphic writing appears suddenly in Egypt, shortly before 3000 BC, as a complete writing system for people to communicate. Scholars are divided about their views toward the
This was the work called Hieroglyphica; written by an Egyptian man named Horapollo and later changes into Greek. There is a reason why the Horapollo had knowledge about the writing system, unfortunately, his explanation for the system is figurative. This is perhaps because it was intended for a Greek man who had believed in the mystical symbolism of the hieroglyphic signs. Horapollo‘s figurative explanation was highly important, and his system took over the attempts at decipherment for the next 14 centuries. Athanasius Kircher , a German Jesuit scholar has begun to think that the hieroglyphics could represent sounds as well as ideas. Kircher knew Coptic and also had inspired the notion that the last phrase of Egyptian might be somewhat related to the language of the