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Hieroglyphic Writing
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Right from the beginning the deciphering of the mysterious Egyptian writing fascinated everybody. In 1799 a certain Captain Bouchard of the French Army was supervising work on the fortifications of Fort St. Julian, situated a little more than four kilometers outside the town of Rosetta when hi work ....
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....ith such success that by his death in 1832 he could leave behind him a grammar and a very substantial dictionary of ancient Egyptian. But what did this writing that the Greeks called hieroglyphic, from “hiero glyphica” that is “sacred signs” actually consist of? The ancient Egyptians themselves called their written texts “the words of the gods”. In fact according to tradition men were taught to write by the god Thot himself during the reign of Osiris. Down through the centuries the writing retai.... |
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