Hieroglyphics

The history of writing has been developing for over thousands of years, and this still has not changed to this day. One of the earliest types of writings that has been discovered is the Egyptian’s writing in hieroglyphics as early as 3200 B.C. Since then, writing all over the world has evolved from the small images in Africa to many different styles that individuals witness today. From the basic letterings in America, Canada, Australia, and Europe to the advanced symbols in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, many of these languages have been altered from the original designs. Nowadays there are visuals that are extremely similar to the previous styles and ways of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, and these comparisons are illustrated in the miniature depictions that are commonly seen on cellphones, tablets, and computer screens. These figures are now generically …show more content…
This seemed like the most realistic outcome for the long-lived language until french soldiers and engineers uncovered a large stone that is now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone. This stone is significant because it bore the same text in three different ways: in hieroglyphs, in the demotic script, and in ancient Greek. Because Greek had been translated by this time, they were able to translate the Greek and decipher the other two texts. Jean François Champollion is known to be the first modern person to be able to read hieroglyphics. In the year 1828, Champollion led a group of architects and artists to Egypt to draw pictures of tombs and temples in the hopes of copying down every hieroglyphic inscription they came across. Hieroglyphics were still being deciphered after Champollion’s death and continues to the present day (“Egypt”). Learning all we can about hieroglyphics has helped and provided us with new information about life in ancient Egypt that we would not know