How did the Egyptians forget Hieroglyphs? [10:53]

YouTube ^ | April 25, 2025 | Garrett Ryan, Ph.D (as toldinstone)

[SunkenCiv]

How did the Egyptians forget Hieroglyphs? | 10:53 
toldinstone | 587K subscribers | 586,513 views | April 25, 2025

 

Chapters: 
0:00 Introduction 
0:53 Introducing hieroglyphs 
2:15 Hieroglyphs in Roman Egypt 
3:10 The great temples 
3:53 Decline of the temples 
5:04 FlexiSpot 
6:28 Vanishing hieroglyphs 
7:40 Roman ignorance of hieroglyphs 
8:44 Hieroglyphica 
9:28 Mysterious or powerless

[SunkenCiv]

The use of cuneiform during the New Kingdom was widespread in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, as it was much more flexible and easier to use. It was used for diplomatic correspondence. The diplomatic archive of the late 18th Dynasty in Egypt was still setting there in the 19th century, and may be the largest ancient diplomatic archive known.

Hieroglyphs grew in number, and meanings of some are still obscure. That was probably the case during pharaonic times as well — a new sign was innovated, then the meaning was lost or the need to express it was either covered by more common sign or signs, or was itself lost.

[Sirius Lee]

Unlike the Chinese, they couldn’t figure out how to make them work on a keyboard.

[Verginius Rufus]

After the Coptic alphabet (largely based on the Greek alphabet) was developed, there was a much easier way to become literate. Egyptian Christians still use Coptic.

A fourth-century Roman historian gives a translation of the text on an Egyptian obelisk in Rome, but until hieroglyphics were deciphered, there was no way to assess the accuracy of his translation.

[Does so]

At a bank, I watched a young lady turning regular hand-printing into art...!

[bunkerhill7]

Egyptians held spelling “beetles.”

[wally_bert]

Cleopatra was a very early republican?

[wally_bert]

I admit I barely write anything on paper and haven’t much in years.

At most I scribble a signature of some kind. A little better than the old style big “X” people did way back before.

I’m left-handed and no could read my writing on a good day ever it seemed.

[minnesota_bound]

How did the Egyptians forget Hieroglyphs?
They started teaching Common Core.

[minnesota_bound]

I could write really well but I blame the pen and the paper and it’s Tuesday for not doing so.

Cursive Writing
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cursive+Writing

[Peter ODonnell]

They knew they couldn’t read the script but they were in de Nile.