Dec 19
Read And Write Like An Egyptian
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 in Links
Over 5000 years ago, ancient Egyptians wrote using a picture writing called hieroglyphics. The writers were called scribes. Not everyone had this training not even the Pharaoh and his family. There was a problem because Egyptians wrote down everything, and hieroglyphs were beautiful, but time consuming!
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Feb 19
Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing
Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 in Links
The world’s oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.
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