Huge Discovery of 18,000 'Notepads' Documents Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | Feb. 07, 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!..................

[IYAS9YAS]

Romanes eunt domus?

[Tell It Right]

One tablet written in Greek dated to the days of Alexander is from a young man writing: "You can't go into a 7-11 without a slight Indian accent".

LOL

[twister881]

“I will not stare at Miss Cleopatra’s breasts.”
“I will not stare at Miss Cleopatra’s breasts.”
“I will not stare at Miss Cleopatra’s breasts.”
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“I will not stare at Miss Cleopatra’s breasts.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, they found one in Latin which read Bibe tuam Ovaltinam.

[IYAS9YAS]

Well, they found one in Latin which read Bibe tuam Ovaltinam.

A crummy commercial? Son of a .....

[robel]

Over half of them were along the lines of “ send a copy of this tablet to 12 people and you will get rich, or don’t, and suffer the wrath of Apep.”

[Huskrrrr]

“Who’s your daddy, Moses?

[Red Badger]

In case of fire, throw this in.......................

[Bonemaker]

[nicollo]

how do you pronounce
l l l l l l l
l l l l l l l l l l
l l l l l l l l l l l
l l l l l l l l l
l l l l l l
in Egyptian?

[Red Badger]

Same as you would in Greek.......................

[missnry]

how do you pronounce l l l l l l l

Similar to Spanish JUAN, JUAN, JUAN, etc.

[Golden Eagle]

Do they explain how they moved those giant rocks from far away to the top of the pyramids? Most likely obviously just the result of an endless supply of slaves, but what was the mechanism, no one seems to know.

[PIF]

Do they explain how they moved those giant rocks from far away to the top of the pyramids? Most likely obviously just the result of an endless supply of slaves, but what was the mechanism, no one seems to know.
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All of that pyramid stuff (Old Kingdom) was as old to them (Late New Kingdom) as they are old to us.

There is every chance that the Giza Complex predates the Old Kingdom by many thousand years.

[j.havenfarm]

Kilroy hic erat.

[algore]

I remember back in April 2000 or 2001? Microsoft announced a cuneiform hieroglyph language pack for Windows.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient Egyptian civilization is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating chapters in human history. While remnants of the culture like temples, obelisks, and sarcophagi continue to mystify us, you can unlock their true meaning if you know how to read hieroglyphs.

To the untrained eye, this ancient writing system looks like artful decoration, a random scattering of stylized ducks, suns, eyes, hands, chairs, and feathers. But to Egyptologists like Dr. Bob Brier of LIU Post—a noted public educator known as “Mr. Mummy” and a popular Great Courses professor—hieroglyphs are the gateway to understanding ancient Egypt, from its religious beliefs to its cosmological ideas to the legacies of its great pharaohs.

In short, they’re the closest we can get to truly resurrecting the lives of ancient Egyptians.

00:00 Translating a Sentence in Hieroglyphs
04:18 Phonetics, Determinatives, and Ideograms
05:49 Learning the Egyptian Alphabet Part 1
13:49 Learning the Egyptian Alphabet Part 2
23:39 Writing Letter Combinations
25:24 How to Transliterate Our Names
28:02 Practice Hieroglyphs With a Homework Lesson

Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs | Ancient Egyptian Alphabet | The Great Courses | December 12, 2016 | Wondrium