10 Hieroglyphics Facts
The scribes were people who knew how to read and write the hieroglyphics.
Students at Egyptian schools were tasked with learning hieroglyphics. For hours they would have to learn the hundreds of hieroglyphic symbols.
It took five years to complete scribe school.
Scribes would have to right hieroglyphics written on the tomb walls to protect the pharaoh in the afterlife.
When armies went to war the leaders would communicate to each other using hieroglyphics.
Military leaders were first trained as scribes.
The government kept records of the country and events in hieroglyphics.
Government officials are just scribes that have been promoted.
In the temples scribes would have to decorate the temple to show the pharaohs respect to the gods.
The tools used for carving walls are called reliefs.
Students at Egyptian schools were tasked with learning hieroglyphics. For hours they would have to learn the hundreds of hieroglyphic symbols.
It took five years to complete scribe school.
Scribes would have to right hieroglyphics written on the tomb walls to protect the pharaoh in the afterlife.
When armies went to war the leaders would communicate to each other using hieroglyphics.
Military leaders were first trained as scribes.
The government kept records of the country and events in hieroglyphics.
Government officials are just scribes that have been promoted.
In the temples scribes would have to decorate the temple to show the pharaohs respect to the gods.
The tools used for carving walls are called reliefs.