HIEROGLYPHICS:
· formal writing system used by ancient Egypt
· use figures like animals, objects, and people
· logographic and alphabetic elements
· they represent real or illusion elements
· it is read alone of its visual characteristics
· mostly written on papyrus paper or on the Pyramids
· hieroglyphs means "Writing Words of God"
· before they were used to write on pyramids they used them for recording something like a census
· use a rebus-pictures are used according to the way they sound
· ex. i believe -"eye, a bee, and a leaf"
· the people who write them are called scribes
· 3 types
o ideogram-a picture used to symbolize an abstract idea
o phonogram-a picture whose name is close to the desired sound
o pictograph-a drawing of the literal word
· first written language for ancient Egypt
· over 2,000 different symbols
THE PYRAMIDS:
- Ancient Egypt was actually located in North Africa.
- About 80 pyramids in Ancient Egypt
- Built as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens
· The pharaohs usually referred to them as their “House of eternity”
o Began planning their houses of eternity as soon as they took the throne
· All sides of the pyramids were to face directly north, south, east, and west
· Large stones were cut from quarries and used to build the pyramids
· Most of the workers were farmers who worked during the flood season, when their fields were under water.
· Four main chambers:
o King’s chamber
o Grand Gallery – leads from ascending passage to the king’s chamber
o Queen’s chamber- not actually meant for the queen to be buried there, possible used as a place to store the king’s funerary objects
o Underground chamber – almost like a trick chamber, many different views on what this tomb was used for
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