2010년 12월 6일 월요일

Ancient Egyptian script

 Ancient Egyptian script is classed by three according to font, it is hieroglyph, hieratic script, demotic script. Hieroglyph is pictograph and was used through all period of ancient Egypt. It is intaglioed to pillar or wall, an obelisk mainly and used to king's souvenir or religion relation books. There are a lot of that is colored and shows high level artistically. Hieratic script used to scatter contour of hieroglyph, and used to scribble to papyrus mainly. Demotic script is character that ordinary people uses in everyday life since BC 8th century.
 Egypt character does horizontal writing generally from right to left.


Above picture is hieroglyph that is Egypt character. If translate English alphabet by hieroglyph that is Egypt character, It is translated like this.


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