Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics
A simple guide to help you understand the ‘sacred text’
A simple guide to help you understand the ‘sacred text’
The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (hieroglyphs meaning ‘sacred writing’ in Greek) has been used by the Ancient Egyptians for thousands of years. The hieroglyphs have mainly been found on temple and tomb walls and often on rocks beside the Nile. A simpler version of the hieroglyphs is hieratic, which was used when writing on papyrus scrolls.
In this thread I will go over some hieroglyphs. You can use them to decipher inscriptions yourself or you can use the 1, 2 or 3 consonant signs to create your name in a form of a cartouche.
I found the hieroglyphs on Wikipedia (List of Hieroglyphs) but there are some hieroglyphics which I had to create or modify myself.
Before we start, I just want to make this clear. Unlike this alphabet, which is read from left-to-right, hieroglyphics can be read in both direction, thats right-to-left and left-to-right. Don't worry though, I will provide you with some help on which direction to read. You always read into the face of the animal. All the hieroglyphs in this thread need to be read the same direction as this text, but here is an example below on to to read hieroglyphics in different directions:
The hieroglyphs says dj-ay-d (pronounced as Jade ... my name whee ). So depending on the which way the animal/human/body part faces you read into it. It's pretty confusing at first but as soon as you get used to read in one direction (start with left-to-right) you can easily do it the other way round. With collumns you always read from top to bottom.
Contents:
arrow 1, 2 and 3 Consonant signs and Transliteration symbols
arrow Determinatives and Ideograms
arrow Cartouches