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Design history - Egyptian script


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The great civilizations are are civilizations that have language, especially writing to guide people way of living, as well as saving tangible and intangible heritage body. This is even more true than when it comes to ancient Egypt, an early civilization and also the most glorious in human history. To learn the process of shaping become and develop a Egyptian creation. Hieroglyphs are language First help us express our thoughts thought in the world of things and phenomena, exchange of ideas ideas, meanings, and transitions pass culture to the next generation after.
Concept
Writing is a system of symbols to record language in a cultural form, which is the description of language through the use of symbols or symbols.

HISTORY ONLY WRITING
For the development history of human society, writing plays a huge role. Writing is a means of recording information, without writing there can be no books, inventions and achievements of ancestors cannot be passed on. 
Writing was thousands of years ago, before there were pens, pencils, or paper and ink. The first writings appear on the walls of caves of prehistoric people, appearing in drawings.
GENERAL ABOUT US WRITE ONLY EGYPT
Egyptian is the language of Ancient Egypt, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic language family. This language is recorded over a very long period, from the time of Old Egyptian (3rd millennium BC, Old Kingdom of Egypt). The oldest complete written sentence dates from around 2690 BC, making it one of the oldest written languages, along with Sumerian. Egyptian developed into Coptic around 200 BC and lost its communicative function around the seventeenth century; is still used as the ceremonial language in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Writing system: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hieratika script, Demotikos script and Coptic alphabet
As far back as 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics by using simple drawings to represent words. To refer to the Face God, people draw a circle and add a dot in the middle. Rectangle divided into many cells to represent the field, three waves to represent water… This figurative method is not capable of expressing the words with complex, highly abstract content. To overcome, the Egyptians combined the figurative and symbolic methods. For example, to describe a buffalo, people draw a buffalo head and an ostrich (with feathers of the same length) to show fairness. During this period, the Egyptians knew how to use Papyrus skin, cloth and paper to write letters. This is a reed-like plant that grows in abundance on the banks of the Nile. In addition, ancient Egyptian writings are also carved on the stone faces.
The ancient Egyptians believed that writing was invented by the god Thoth and called their hieroglyphic writing "mdjunetjer" ("speech of the gods"). Hieroglyphs are derived from the Greek hieros (sacred). sacred) plus a glypho (inscription) and was first used by Clement of Alexandria. The earliest examples of writing in Egypt date back to 3,400 BC. The latest hieroglyphic inscription was made on the gate post of a temple at Philae in AD 396.

Egyptian hieroglyphs are difficult to read and remember. After Egypt fell, no one could read this script. It was not until 1822 that a French scholar named Champollion found a way to decipher the ancient texts left by the Egyptians.
After Emperor Theodsius I ordered the closure of all pagan temples throughout the Roman Empire at the end of the 4th century AD, knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was lost.
Hieroglyphs were used mainly for official inscriptions on the walls of temples and tombs. In some inscriptions, the strokes are detailed and full of color, in others they are just simple outlines.
The writing direction of the hieroglyph is varied - it can be written in Horizontal rows run from left to right or right to left, or vertical columns run from top to bottom. You can tell the direction of any piece of text by looking at how the animals and people are facing - they look towards the top of the line. The arrangement of the glyphs is partly based on artistic considerations.
NUMBER
By combining the following glyphs, any number can be create. Higher value signs are always written before the signs lower value.
4. HISTORICAL STAGES OF EGYPT WRITTEN
Gerzean Pottery
 
3200 BC – 400 AD (5200 BC): Hieroglyphs emerged from the pre-literate Egyptian artistic traditions. For example, symbols on Gerzean pottery from about 4000 BC resemble hieroglyphs. 
Narmer stone board
For many years the earliest hieroglyphic writing was the Narmer tablet, found during excavations at Hierakonpolis (modern Kawm al-Ahmar) in the 1890s, which was dated to around 3200 BC. Original.
Because hieroglyphs were too difficult to remember, the Egyptians invented a new type of writing that was modified from hieroglyphs. This is a script commonly used by Egyptian priests to take notes and compose. Hieroglyphs are still used to decorate walls and tombs and engrave on monuments and steles.
The popular script was developed from the script of the priests and simplified, easy to read suitable for all ancient Egyptians. It is used for administrative purposes and for literary documents, scientific treatises, legal documents and commercial contracts. It marks a new development in language because it is a local linguistic form with its own grammar system. During the Greco-Roman period (Greek-Roman wars) the vernacular became common and the priest's script was used only in religious texts.
It is impossible to know exactly how the ancient Egyptian language was pronounced no, but through the study of the common language of the church, the the first alphabet of the Egyptian language can be obtained Pretty accurate ideas. The ecclesiastical script is written in the Greek alphabet and has six symbols used from the vernacular. It was the language of the Christian era in Egypt from 395 - 641 AD
After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, Greek culture influenced the Egyptians during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy. The Greek script became the national language used at court. Even the pharaohs of this dynasty could not read Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Christianity spread into Egypt during the rule of the Roman Empire. A new type of writing was born called the Coptic script. It was written in the Greek alphabet and added 6 symbols in the popular Egyptian writing system
The ecclesiastical script gradually replaced the popular script and was commonly used in the Egyptian writing system. It is composed of a series of linguistic forms including at least six written characters and ceased to be used in the 14th century, when the Arabs conquered Egypt and the Arabic language- Arabic became the dominant language. The ecclesiastical language and script are used only during religious services in orthodox churches.
Decoding the Rosetta Stone In 196 BC, Ptolemy ordered the creation of the Rosetta Stone in a political propaganda campaign to announce to the world he was the legitimate Pharaoh of Egypt. The importance of the Rosetta Stone lies not in the content of the political decree, but in the text presented in two ancient Egyptian and Greek languages according to three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs (top top). ), Egyptian (middle) and Greek (bottom) so that all people can read and understand
"Obelisks" (Stone Pen Tower) works with decorative patterns from hieroglyphs and is also a work to help archaeologists interpret hieroglyphs. 

Obelisks were perceived by the ancient Egyptians to be monoliths, or made from a single block of rock. In Greek, the literal meaning of the word "monolith" is "a block of rock". The oldest Obelisks date back to history human. 

Seaton Schroeder – the American engineer, called it a monument of the times ancient times, and he discovered that: “From the above carvings On the Obelisk face, we can see most of the events in history ancient: since the fall of Troy, Homer has not been born, temple Solomon's temple hasn't been built yet…” 

The ancient Egyptians often placed a pair of obelisks at the entrance to sacred temples. In their view, obelisks were closely associated with the Sun God. Obelisks are often gilded, or plated with a natural gold-silver alloy (electrum), to catch the first rays of the morning sun. 29 Egyptian obelisks are still standing, and only 9 of them are in Egypt, the rest are scattered around the world, under the name of gifts from the Egyptian government.
Hieroglyphs played an important role in the performance of many royal functions, used by powerful Egyptian Pharaohs and scribes to record the achievements of their reign. Today, the millions of hieroglyphs preserved in sacred texts, stone coffins, tombs, and monuments are testimony to a bygone golden age in Egypt.
Whether it's easy or difficult, hieroglyphics is still a primitive writing system of mankind, not only marking the birth of civilization, but also very interesting, poetic, and full of mystery. Once a language, but now it often appears as unique decorative motifs from Egypt
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