{"id":291,"date":"2019-04-19T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2023-12-03T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T06:02:38","slug":"writing-in-ancient-egypt-hieroglyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/writing-in-ancient-egypt-hieroglyphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in Ancient Egypt [Hieroglyphs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-291\"  class=\"panel-layout\" >\n<div id=\"pg-291-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"  data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;,&quot;cell_alignment&quot;:&quot;flex-start&quot;}\"  data-ratio=\"0.61803398\"  data-ratio-direction=\"right\" >\n<div id=\"pgc-291-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"  data-weight=\"1\" >\n<div id=\"panel-291-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\" >\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<h2>Writing in Ancient Egypt [Hieroglyphs]<\/h2>\n<p>First and most amazing Egyptian invention ever; that pure Egyptian tool helped mankind to record their beliefs, heritage, and history.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptians have invented the first writing in human history, started with some signs, marks, and pictures from the surrounding environment. This type of writing was called by ancient Greeks <em>hieroglyphic<\/em> meaning the holy inscription or holy writing which was used for religious purposes.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<figure id=\"attachment_295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-295 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieroglyphic-Writing-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieroglyphic-Writing-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieroglyphic-Writing.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hieroglyphic Writing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<figure id=\"attachment_294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-294\" src=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieratic-Writing-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieratic-Writing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hieratic-Writing.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hieratic Writing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Then they developed another cursive type of writing called <em>Hieratic<\/em> which was basically used by priests to summarize and explain holy inscriptions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-293 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Demotic-Writing-300x123.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demotic Writing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<figure id=\"attachment_292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-292\" src=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sinai-Alphabet-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"125\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sinai Alphabet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Demotic, everyday writing, used by local government and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptians also devolved the first alphabet known to man called &#8220;Sinai Alphabet&#8221; which is the base of all western alphabets today. They have also added Coptic which is still in use in Coptic Church&#8217;s liturgy and prayers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in Ancient Egypt [Hieroglyphs] First and most amazing Egyptian invention ever; that pure Egyptian tool helped mankind to record their beliefs, heritage, and history. <a href=\"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/writing-in-ancient-egypt-hieroglyphs\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanefer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}