https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0 The Egyptian way of writing. en-us 2017-03-08 01:07:56 UTC 2025-10-26 15:53:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159142647 Papyrus is a plant that grows along the Nile River. Egyptians used papyrus for paper, sandals, reed boats, and rope. ]]> 2017-03-09 21:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159142647 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159144203 These are papyrus sandals.]]> 2017-03-09 22:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159144203 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159144603 Scribes were Egyptian men who were taught to write and kept records for high class Egyptians]]> 2017-03-09 22:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159144603 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159157773 A video on hieroglyphics.]]> 2017-03-10 00:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159157773 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159158629 Scribes mainly wrote about important events, describing everyday life, keeping track of food supply, and calculating taxes.]]> 2017-03-10 00:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159158629 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159159249 Scribes are third in the social pyramid. They came after Pharaohs (of course), Government Officials, and Priests]]> 2017-03-10 00:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/159159249 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160681937 Incase you did not  know hieroglyphics are Egyptians way of writing.]]> 2017-03-17 00:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160681937 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160682291 Hieroglyphics were first used around 3300 or 3200 BC. According to archaeologists discoveries hieroglyphics may have been one of the first piece of writing.]]> 2017-03-17 00:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160682291 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160682495 This is a picture of hieroglyphics translated.]]> 2017-03-17 00:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160682495 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160684929 You may ask what type of Egyptian were able to learn how to write. Well all children staked with there mother until the age of four. After that then boys were sent to work with there fathers. Around this time some not all went to the village school. Some other children went to a specific career school. For example if children were set to do a career like being a scribe they would go to a special school for scribes in training.]]> 2017-03-17 00:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160684929 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160899796 I found out how to make paper out of papyrus by watching a 7 minute video. We don't have time for that so I will tell you instead. You would cut of the flower the shave off the green part. After it is white inside you cut the white part into strips. These strips are easily torn so what they do is put them in water to 3 days at least the longer you put the plant in the water the darker the paper will be. After it is done soaking the strands are a lot stronger. After the come out you weave them after they are woven you put them under a machine that crushes it them makes papyrus paper.]]> 2017-03-17 22:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160899796 1060654 https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160901154 2017-03-17 22:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1060654/520tzi076py0/wish/160901154