Hieroglyphics

10 interesting facts about hieroglyphics...

• Unlike the language we use nowadays, hieroglyphics were actually pictures of objects. For example, a foot, hand, bird and lion
• You can read hieroglyphics from any direction you want. Whether it be from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top or even diagonally
• An eye stands for the number 1
• The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 and it decoded the hieroglyphic language
• The place where the Rosetta Stone was found was named Rosetta but it is now called Rashid
• Jean Francois Champollion, a French scholar, decoded the hieroglyphic language
• There were two types of hieroglyphic language; demotic and hieroglyphics which priests and scribes use
• The Rosetta Stone was dedicated to Ptolemy V and it also had the king's cartouche
• The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt
• The Rosetta Stone the French soldiers found was only a part of a bigger stone

The Rosetta Stone