Overview of Hieroglyphics | Writing Materials | Miscellaneous Hieroglyphics | KPS Writing |
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What are Hieroglyphs?
A series of picture like symbols.
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What are clay and stones?
At first, Egyptians wrote on these materials.
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Who were the Sumerians?
This civilization used stones and clay for paper along with the Egyptians.
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Who is Mrs. Hone?
This teacher teaches sixth grade English, and has a room on the first floor.
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What is Go?
A picture of two legs means this.
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What is papyrus?
This is an early form of paper used by the Egyptians.
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What is the growth of the Kingdom?
This contributed to the creation of more pictures.
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What is "The Night Journey"?
We read this story about a month ago in class.
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What are pictures?
This represents sounds and letters
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What are reeds?
Egyptians found these plants -- critical for writing -- in the marshy areas in the Nile Delta.
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Who is Thoth?
This Egyptian god provided the gift of writing to the people.
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Choose as many points as you want - up to double your own points.
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What is the Kingdom's wealth?
Hieroglyphs kept track of this important aspect of the Egyptian Kingdom
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What is three?
This is the number of scripts used in ancient Egypt.
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What is "p"?
This sound was represented by a picture of a square.
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What are the ORS stories?
We wrote these stories about relatives.
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What are ideas?
In addition to things, sounds and letters, hieroglyphics stood for these.
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What is reed sap?
This sticky substance helped glue together the sheets of Egyptian "paper".
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What is the Book Of The Dead?
This book was meant to guide the dead to the afterlife.
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What are trees?
Our paper comes from this source in modern times.
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