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  2. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s / HY-roh-glifs) [1] [2] were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic , logographic , syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters.

  3. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  4. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Like Zoëga, he recognised that there were too few hieroglyphs for each to represent one word, and he suggested that words were composed of two or three hieroglyphs each. [66] Young noticed the similarities between hieroglyphic and demotic signs and concluded that the hieroglyphic signs had evolved into the demotic ones.

  5. Cartouche - Wikipedia

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    In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche (/ k ɑːr ˈ t uː ʃ / kar-TOOSH) is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. [1] The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty , but the feature did not come into common use until the beginning of ...

  6. Turin King List - Wikipedia

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    Turin King List with 2013 corrections of positions for some fragments – table representation of rows from the original papyrus, translated into hieroglyphs These are the actual names written on the papyrus, omitting the years, summations and headings:

  7. Demotic (Egyptian) - Wikipedia

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    It is inscribed with a proclamation, written in three scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and the Greek alphabet. There are 32 lines of Demotic, which is the middle of the three scripts on the stone. The Demotic was deciphered before the hieroglyphs, starting with the efforts of Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Scholars were eventually able ...

  8. Graffito of Esmet-Akhom - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Egyptian history, hieroglyphs were closely associated with elite and religious display. The egyptologist Richard B. Parkinson considers it fitting that the last known use of hieroglyphs is in connection with the image of a deity. [1] The ancient Egyptians sometimes employed non-standard hieroglyphs to produce an early form of ...

  9. Linear A - Wikipedia

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    A problem is that it can be difficult to tell if a single-sign (or even doubleton) is Linear A, Linear B, or Cretan Hieroglyphs because of the overlap in sign use. [60] [61] Vessel sherds were found at Traostalos, bearing three signs in total. [62] Four vase sherds were found at Thera with signs, as well as a ostrakon with one sign. [40]