Temples and writng by Nellie Holder https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl en-us 2016-06-14 01:18:09 UTC 2016-06-14 02:26:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Origins of egyptian writing holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553231 The ancient Egyptians believed that writing was invented by the god Thoth and called their hieroglyphic script "mdju netjer" ("words of the gods"). The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hieros (sacred) plus glypho (inscriptions) and was first used by Clement of Alexandria.]]> 2016-06-14 01:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553231 WEBSITES THAT NELLIE HAS USED holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553321 http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian.html

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http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/writing.htm]]> 2016-06-14 01:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553321 More about hieroglyphs holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553436 The earliest known examples of writing in Egypt have been dated to 3,400 BC. The latest dated inscription in hieroglyphs was made on the gate post of a temple at Philae in 396 AD.]]> 2016-06-14 01:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553436 even more about hieroglyphs holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553532  In some inscriptions the glyphs are very detailed and in full colour, in others they are simple outlines. For everyday writing the hieratic script was used.]]> 2016-06-14 01:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553532 The Rosetta Stone https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553592 The Rosetta Stone is a rock stele, found in 1799, inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of KingPtolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion is Demoticscript, and the lowest is Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), the stone provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

]]> 2016-06-14 01:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553592 holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553701 2016-06-14 01:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553701 Temples https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553859 The ancient Egyptians believed that temples were the homes of the gods and goddesses. Every templewas dedicated to a god or goddess and he or she was worshipped there by the temple priests and the pharaoh. The large temple buildings were made of stone so that they would last forever.]]> 2016-06-14 01:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553859 Stuff about writing holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553944 The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about religion and government. Thus, they invented written scripts that could be used to record this information.
The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic. However, throughout three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilisation, at least three otherscripts were used for different purposes. Using these scripts,scribes were able to preserve the beliefs, history and ideas of ancient Egypt in temple and tomb walls and on papyrus scrolls. ]]> 2016-06-14 01:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114553944 WEBSITES THAT ZOE HAS USED https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554095 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_temple
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]]> 2016-06-14 01:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554095 List Of Ancient Egypts Temples https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554258 -Luxor Temple
-Temple of edfu
-Temple of Kom ombo
-Precinct of Amun-Re
-Temple of Dendur
-Temple of Kalabsha
-Temple of Beit el-Wali
-Temple of Dakka
-Temple of Derr
-Temple of Debod
-Temple of Taffeh
-Great Temple of the Aten
-Small Aten Temple
-Temple of Khonsu
Just to name a few ;)
-Zomo]]> 2016-06-14 01:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554258 holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554506 The Egyptian writing called hieroglyphics used pictures to represent different objects, actions, sound or ideas. There were more than 700 hieroglyphs. Some pictures stood for whole words.]]> 2016-06-14 01:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554506 holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554799 Hieroglyphs is made from two Greek words:

  • hieros meaning holy
  • glyphe meaning writing
So hieroglyph means holy writing.

]]> 2016-06-14 01:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554799 More about the rosetta stone https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554888 The stone, carved in black granodiorite, is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at nearby Sais. It was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period, and was eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was rediscovered there in July 1799 by a soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard of the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic language.Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among European museums and scholars. Meanwhile, British troopsdefeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria and was transported to London. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously since 1802. It is the most-visited object in the British Museum.]]> 2016-06-14 01:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114554888 Egypt's Temples https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555153 Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and in commemoration of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and regions under Egyptian control. Temples were seen as houses for the gods or kings to whom they were dedicated. Within them, the Egyptians performed a variety of rituals, the central functions of Egyptian religion: giving offerings to the gods, reenacting their mythological interactions through festivals, and warding off the forces of chaos. ]]> 2016-06-14 01:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555153 Who were the scribes? https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555759 Scribes were people in ancient Egypt (usually men) who learned to read and write.Although experts believe that most scribes were men, there is evidence of some female doctors. These women would have been trained as scribes so that they could read medical texts.
]]> 2016-06-14 02:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555759 Scribes https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555811 Not everyone learned to read and write in ancient Egypt. Only one group of people called scribes was allowed to have this knowledge.]]> 2016-06-14 02:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114555811 How did someone become a scribe? https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556060
To become a scribe, you had to attend a special school for scribes. At this school you would learn how to read and write hieroglyphic and hieraticscripts. This was hard work. These scripts are complicated, and there were many signs to learn.

Students spent a lot of time practising the signs by copying them onto sheets of papyrus, old pieces of pottery or flakes of limestone.

]]> 2016-06-14 02:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556060 Could anyone become a scribe? https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556206 No. Most often it was the children of scribes who became scribes. Although some craftsmen were able to get their sons into the school for scribes, it was very rare. But almost everybody knows how to write today!]]> 2016-06-14 02:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556206 What tools did a scribe use? https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556258 Scribes usually wrote on papyrus with reed brushes dipped in ink. The ancient Egyptians made ink by grinding brightly coloured minerals into powder, then mixing the powder with liquid so that it was easier to apply. how interesting]]> 2016-06-14 02:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556258 Writing In temples https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556371 Temples were the houses of the gods and goddesses. The walls were decorated with writing and pictures that showed the pharaoh's respect for the gods and goddesses.

Priests who worked in the temples were scribes.

They were the people who performed the sacredrituals that were necessary to keep the gods and goddesses happy. Thus, they needed to be able to read the instructions for the rituals that were written on papyrus scrolls and carved into the temple walls.

These tools were used for carving wall reliefs.

]]> 2016-06-14 02:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556371 Writing in the Goverment https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556735 The government of ancient Egypt kept records about the country. This helped them work out important facts about how the country was running.

For example, by looking at records from past years they could see how much grain or how many animals were collected in taxes.

Government officials were scribes who had been promoted to higher positions. One scribe named Horemheb who was a high government official actually became pharaoh. 


]]> 2016-06-14 02:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556735 TEMPLES holdernellie12 https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556875 These rituals were seen as necessary for the gods to continue to uphold maat, the divine order of the universe. Housing and caring for the gods were the obligations of pharaohs, who therefore dedicated prodigious resources to temple construction and maintenance. Out of necessity, pharaohs delegated most of their ritual duties to a host of priests, but most of the populace was excluded from direct participation in ceremonies and forbidden to enter a temple's most sacred areas. Nevertheless, a temple was an important religious site for all classes of Egyptians, who went there to pray, give offerings, and seek oracular guidance from the god dwelling within.]]> 2016-06-14 02:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556875 Writing in the army https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556877 When the ancient Egyptians went to battle against their enemies they used writing to communicate with each other.

Military leaders were first trained as scribes, so they would be able to read messages that were sent to them. 


]]> 2016-06-14 02:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556877 Writing in Scibe school https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556906 Students in an ancient Egyptian scribe schools had many things to learn. Since it was important for them to learn how to record information correctly, they had to read and write well.

They spent hours copying hundreds of signs until they could make them well enough to please their teachers.

This was hard work, and many students did not like the work they were given. Sometimes they were punished for skipping classes or not doing their work.

]]> 2016-06-14 02:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556906 Writing in Tombs https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556916 Writing was a very important part of tomb decoration. The writing on the walls in a pharaoh's tomb helped him get to the afterlife.
Scribes wrote the spells on the walls of tombs before they were carved. Then, the craftsmen decorating the tomb carved the hieroglyphs or painted them. Finally, the head scribe checked over the work that had been done to make sure it was correct.
Remember, the craftsmen could not always read what they were carving on the walls, and a missed line or sign could mean that the spells would not work. 

]]> 2016-06-14 02:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556916 Writing in the fields https://padlet.com/holdernellie12/ok86l722lqyl/wish/114556961 One of the first jobs that scribes might have after they finished school was working in the fields counting crops or animals.

This is a wall painting from the tomb of a nobleman called Nebamun.

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