Lesson Objectives

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Lesson Objectives

• To understand how the Ancient Egyptians learned
  to communicate in writing

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Ancient Egypt

• One of the most advanced civilisations of ancient
  times.
• What do you associate with ancient Egypt?

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Egyptian Language

• Emerged around 3000 B.C.
• The Egyptians developed hieroglyphics as a way of
  communicating.
• They were very time-consuming to produce, and
  were mainly written in the tombs and pyramids of
  royalty. They were also sometimes written on
  papyrus or wood.

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• Hieroglyphics are similar to ideograms.
• They can represent individual letters or numbers

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• They can represent word sounds

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• Or whole words

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Presentation Note that the Egyptians, when
writing hieroglyphs, generally drew each
hieroglyph in a square (or rectangular) area.
Sometimes there might be one, two or more
hieroglyphs in the one area. The secondary
hieroglyphs were usually smaller than the main
one, though a number of small hieroglyphs could
be used instead. Direction of Writing
Hieroglyphs could be read in a number of
directions, depending on how the hieroglyphs are
set out. It is usually easy to tell - you read
into the face of the hieroglyphic animals. For
example, if the hieroglyph of the snake (or bird,
etc) is facing to the right, you read the
hieroglyphs from left to right... and vice versa!
If there are two hieroglyphs in the same area,
read the top-most one first, then the one(s)
under in the correct direction. This goes for
hieroglyphs set out in rows or columns. Rows are,
of course, read in the correct direction, and
downwards... and columns are read across ways!
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How do we know what they mean?

• For centuries, nobody was able to understand
  hieroglyphics. Historians knew they were part of
  an alphabet, but they couldnt read them.
• The discovery of the Rosetta Stone made this
  possible.
• When the Rosetta stone was carved in 196BC,
  Egyptians were beginning to speak in newer
  versions of Egyptian, and in Greek. The old
  language was eventually forgotten about.

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Can you draw and write these animals in
hieroglyphs?
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Task

• Use the alphabet sheet to write your full name
  using hieroglyphics
• EXT Write a short statement about something
  youve learned today using hieroglyphics. See if
  another member of the class can decipher it.

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