PPT-Ancient Egyptian Writing: Hieroglyphics

What do you think is written here The R osetta stone Task Create your own hieroglyphic alphabet Then write a message in your new alphabet Then have one of your peers decode your message. The soldiers unearthed a dark grey-pinkish granite stone that stood about four feet tall and 2½ feet wide. . The Rosetta Stone . Ancient . Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with three languages. One language was Greek, but the . History of Hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics were used by the Ancient Egyptians for almost 3,500 years, but . they took . a lot of time and effort to make and were very hard to learn. .. Hieroglyphic is a Greek word translated as “the sacred engraved letters”.. Whitney Hale. How do we know what the Egyptian language of numbers is?. It has been found on the writings on the stones of monument walls of ancient time. Numbers have also been found on pottery, limestone plaques, and on the fragile fibers of the papyrus. The language is composed of . 3,000BC just about the same time as the Mesopotamians!. What allowed Egyptians to begin trading among themselves and with others?. The introduction of the . shadoof. Farming the Nile Delta. Minerals from the red land. Hieroglyphics. In the beginning, in ancient Egypt, over 5000 years ago, scribes wrote things down using pictures. That was a scribe's job, to write things down. . Scribes . used a system of pictures to do so. These pictures were called hieroglyphics. It was beautiful art. . Chapter 3.3 . Egyptian gods and goddesses. Early in Egyptian history towns and villages had their own patron gods and goddesses, who they believed protected them. . Early Egyptian gods were often depicted as people, with human bodies, but with the heads of animals. . Men had many roles in Egyptian society. Boys would leave school at 14 to work with their fathers . women. Women took care of their home. Some women worked outside the home as priestesses, administrators, and artisans. Welcome to Ancient Egypt. Where are we??. . Google Earth! . Geography: Egypt . Label MAP! . The ancient Egyptians enjoyed many . natural barriers. . . There were . deserts. to the east and west of the Nile River, and . lasted from about 3100 B.C. to about 525 B.C. or just over 2500 years. . During . that time, there were at least 20 different dynasties with many different rulers. . Historians . divide the long history into . What are hieroglyphics?. Ancient Egyptians started using pictures to make a written language called . hieroglyphics.. It was one of the very . first. writing systems in the world!. They wrote hieroglyphics on temples and monuments.. Egypt. The people of ancient Egypt did not have scientific explanations for natural phenomena. . They believed sunshine . and . the great Nile River . were . gifts from their . many . gods. The beliefs . Jules Janick. Period. Time frame. Event. Paleolithic-Neolithic. (Pre-dynastic). 10,000–4000 . BCE. Agricultural beginnings. Old Kingdom. (I–VI dynasty). 3100–2180. Government; Earliest pyramids; Reunification of Upper and Lower Egypt (3100 . in making the country run properly so the Egyptians . w. orshipped gods for just about everything- flooding, health, love, having babies, the sun, the sky and so on.. There were over 2000 gods- that’s a lot more than all of the gods in all of the different religions that exist nowadays! The gods were male, or female (goddesses) and were often shown as having the body of a human and the head of an animal or bird. . Vocabulary. 1. . Fertile Crescent.  – the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization,”. 2. .