Hey dear community, first of all I would like to greet you all on my new contribution and hope you are all doing well and you had a day that brought some interesting experiences into your life! In this article I would like to discuss hieroglyphs and hope you are able to expand your knowledge.
Hieroglyphs are characters that consist of images and can often stand for whole words or simply wording and for the ancient Egyptians, it had a very special meaning and they thought it once came from the gods. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are already thousands of years old and have been adapted more and more over time and the ability to decipher them more easily, can be traced back to the French scientist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) who found methods to decipher them and he used a stone as a basis on which thousands of years old Hieroglyphs could be found and was also under the name Stone of Rosetta. In ancient Egypt, very few people could generally read and writing developed into an art that only every hundred mastered and thus it was only possible for scribes or higher social classes to read and it is believed that in the original times in ancient Egypt there were only a few hundred hieroglyphs and it had developed into a few thousand over the years. The scribes in ancient Egypt who mastered the writing of the hieroglyphs had an important meaning in ancient Egypt and were also often considered scholars who were masters of knowledge and therefore others could not read or write, they were tactically far ahead of others and were also counted among the elite in ancient Egypt. It was definitely not an easy way to decipher these hieroglyphs completely and these achievements were very important and a great help to get to knowledge from past times and these mystical characters are a good example of knowledge that was once lost and found again. When it comes to the hieroglyphs itself, the origin is still not known to this day or if it were actually the Egyptians themselves who invented it or came from other traditions and some suspected that it could be older scripts that have been further developed and as already mentioned above, had a high mythological value in ancient Egypt and was particularly often used for ritual purposes and the ancient Egyptians also used some occult practices in which hieroglyphs had a great importance.
Many thanks for stopping and I hope you could learn something new about this interesting topic! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.
