Where did hieroglyphics come from?????

Question

this is for a project and i really need to know this!!!

Answer 1

Ancient Egypt. It was used for funery and similar important things. Thedy had 2 scripts, a shorthand one, and the heiroglyphic pictures one which they used for the spells and the Book of the Dead that wouold help them get to the Afterlife.

Answer 2

Everything you want to know under title: History and Evolution at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hi...

Answer 3

they came from the  hierogliphicans, of hieroglyphica. hierogliphically  speaking of course :)

Answer 4

Hieroglyphics was the writing method in Ancient Egypt, and was most commonly written on papyrus role (the first paper, invented by the Ancient Egyptians).

Ancient Egyptian writing uses more than 2000 hieroglyphic characters. Each hieroglyph represents a common object in ancient Egypt. Hieroglyphs could represent the sound of the object or they could represent an idea associated with the object.

The Rosetta Stone is the key to the translation of hieroglyphics. It was discovered in the town of Rosetta in the Nile Delta in 1799 by one of Napoleon’s soldiers.  The Rosetta Stone bears the same inscription in both Egyptians hieroglyphics and Greek letters.

Additional Info:

Writing in Egypt goes back to pretty much the earliest writing anywhere. Nobody really knows yet whether the Egyptians figured out how to write for themselves, or whether they learned it from the Sumerians, who also began writing about the same time, about 3000 BC. The Egyptian form of writing, hieroglyphs, does not look the same or work the same as the Sumerian form of writing, cuneiform. So if they did get the idea from the Sumerians, the Egyptians certainly changed it a lot. What we have left of Egyptian writing, like Egyptian art, mostly comes out of tombs. Because of this, most of what we have left is prayers (because that is the kind of thing you put in people's tombs). Other writing like laws, letters to your mom, and lists of who gave their fair share to the temple mostly has rotted away, over the years. We don't know whether the Egyptians wrote novels or stories, but if they did then these stories have also rotted away. Probably they didn't write much literature, or some of it would have been saved.

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Answer 5

The word hieroglyph comes from two Greek words meaning sacred writing or sacred carvings and refers to the elaborate picture writing associated with ancient Egypt.

In ancient cultures, priests were often the only ones who wrote and their writing was about sacred matters. Hieroglyphs were used to decorate tombs functionally and to keep track of the (divine) pharaoh's possessions. They could be written, as the etymology implies, by being carved into stone or painted or drawn with pen and ink on papyrus. Hieroglyphs are the picture symbols, but the term hieroglyphic is an adjective used to refer to the type of writing. Thus, you could say hieroglyphic writing or simply hieroglyphs, or you could go with what everyone else says -- hieroglyphic. This makes intuitive sense because the other Egyptian writing systems are known as demotic and hieratic, rather than demot and hierat, but that's because they have different etymologies.

The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about religion and government. Thus, they invented written scripts that could be used to record this information.

The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic. However, throughout three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilisation, at least three other scripts were used for different purposes. Using these scripts, scribes were able to preserve the beliefs, history and ideas of ancient Egypt in temple and tomb walls and on papyrus scrolls.

Answer 6

They came from Egypt.