Egypt
The Story of the Rosetta Stone, "Finding a Lost Language"
Egyptian hieroglyphics had been used by the Egyptians for thousands of years. However, a particularly bleak period of Egyptian history is the conquest of Egypt by Persia. The Egyptians were dominated by Persian intruders. The events that changed the nature of Egypt were not the Persian conquest but rather the war between Persia (the rulers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hieroglyphic Technology
Hieroglyphic text processing programs allows script of hieroglyphics to be studied, analyzed, and edited by a computer. Two hieroglyphic text-processing programs are Glyph for Windows and MacScribe. Glyph for Windows Glyph for Windows is a hieroglyphic text-processing program designed for IBM-compatible computers. The program runs along with Microsoft Windows. With this program, hieroglyphic scripts can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Genetic Archaeology
In the last 50 years archaeologists have been looking through old relics to try to tell the story of different peoples, now they are starting to use the people themselves. They are using mummified corpses and soft tissue from dead people and animals from places like Egypt. The tool they use from them is DNA [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FIR’AWN WHO WAS DROWNED
(Deeds) after the manner of the people of Fir’awn and those before them: They treated as false the Signs of their Lord: so We destroyed them for their crimes, and We drowned the people of Fir’awn: for they were all oppressors and wrong-doers. (Surat al-Anfal: 54) Ancient Egyptian Civilisation, along with other city states established [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The History of Egyptology
Napoleon I and Vivant Denon paved the way in the discovery of Egypt in archeology. On July 2, 1798 Napoleon stepped onto Egyptian soil after leaving France. He was on his way to seize British lands in India but came upon resistence from British Naval forces. After spending nineteen days in the desert of Egypt, [...]
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