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3200 BCE
Egypt
At this point in time hieroglyphs was the first form of writing/communication through “words.” They were sacred carvings made up of characters and symbols used as a pictorial representation of writing. -
2650 BCE
3rd Dynasty
Principals of the text was regularized; using pictures to describe a word, meaning or sounds -
400 BCE
Words
Hieroglyphs and their manual variants were progressively substituted by an alphabetic transcription of words and later texts utilizing the Greek alphabet and 7 Demotic marks to reproduce Egyptian sounds unheard in Greek. -
Period: 300 BCE to 200 BCE
The lack of use
With the development of Christianity, the ancient Egyptian religion but also its hieroglyphics declined and eventually died. The employment of a modified variant of the Greek alphabet by Egyptian Christians resulted in a comparably broad abandonment of the native Egyptian script. Hieroglyphics were last used on an inscription in 394 CE. -
196 BCE
Rosetta Stone
An inscription of King Ptolemy V's decree is written in three different texts: Hieroglyphics, Demotic and Greek. -
Understanding Hieroglyphs
The Egyptian language text was entirely decoded on the Rosetta Stone by the French researcher Jean-François Champollion, who determined that the hieroglyphics were a combination of alphabetic, determinative, and syllabic components. As a result, the true importance of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which had been lost for 1600 years, was eventually rediscovered. -
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Significance to the past
Writing is the first required step in the documented history of a culture or civilization since it recounts the lives of people. Historians now think that the ancient Egyptians created hieroglyphic script and other scripts in response to the necessity for an accurate and dependable manner to preserve and convey information related to religion, governance, and record-keeping.