Hieroglyphics

I know I wasn't meant to look but curiousity have left me itching to open up the exercise book of a university student who had entitled it in the front cover "the recreation of solar energy..." and the rest were self-assured. Lifting up the front page slowly to reveal the content, something unrelated caught my attention. Merely a thin bookmark had sent me typing away in to google for some discovery - and in less than a minute, I saw a full chart of hieroglyphical alphabets in front of me.

Determined to seek an understanding of the system, I stumbled upon a tutor from a website about understanding the hieroglyphics. It is, naturally, educational and highly interactive.

From there on (although I won't be there for too long to actually memorised all of them), I found out that the hieroglyphics are somehow related, if not, is the point of creation in literature used in the civilisation. The use was dated back 5000 years ago - and was used for quite sometime till the romans.

The glyphs (or diagrams) represents not letters, but the sound/phonetics to make the sentence. Naturally, as the phonetics are taught but not recorded to affirm the exact way they sound, the phonetics get different kind of ways to say. This easily leads to general confusion when encrypting it on to the structure. Thus, ideogrammatic glyphs (also called as derminitive glyphs as they 'determine') are presented usually in the end of a sentence so that it does not mislead. They are not however, phonetics but represents ideas or objects. To be simply put, it helps to identify the meaning.

Hieroglyphic tutor website: http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/egypttutor/

Yey Egypt for the invention of civilisation.