Hieroglyphics

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Heiroglyphics are a complex way of writing in ancient Egypt and there are a lot of questions. What are they? How were they organized? Who wrote them? Some of these questions are hard to answer, but it isn't impossible.

What are hieroglyphics? **Heiroglypics are a system of writing using acient Egyptian symbols.** This system of writing is very complex and uses over several hundred words and letters. There are no vowels or consonants. There is also no punctuation or spacing. The hieroglyphics were sub-divided into categories, which included Phonograms and Ideograms.

How were they organized? **Phonograms** were used to spell out the sound of the words they represented and they usually had no relation to the word they were sounding out. **Ideograms** were used to write the words they represented. Not all symbols represented single letters, some pictures represented words. Even though they were organized they were still hard to write.


 * Who wrote them? Scribes** were the only ones that knew how to write hieroglyphics. It normally took several years for people to learn hieroglyphics and become scribes. Wealthy young boys at the age six or seven went to school to learn how to write hieroglyphics. When they became scribes then they didn’t have to join the military. Scribes also didn't have to pay taxes.

Hieroglyphics were a complex system of writing in acient Egypt. They are orginized in a way that most people don't know. This ancient writing was so hard that there were certain people that knew them. Hieroglyphics are cool, but at the same time they are difficult to understand. If I had the chance I would really want to learn them. Bibliography Putnam, James. __Ancient Egypt: Eye Witness Anthologies__. New York: DK Publishing, Inc. 1996. “Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics” Ancient Egypt Online, 2008, January 9, 2012, 