Egyptian Drawing

THE EARLY Egyptians used pictures to show a sign of the alphabet or a syllable in a word. For many years men puzzled over the drawings they found on the walls of ancient Egyptian temples and pyramids. Then, in 1799, a huge flat stone was discovered near the city of Rosetta in Egypt. On one side Rosetta stone were Egyptian drawings, and on the other side was the very same message in Greek. Each Greek word stood for an Egyptian symbol. By comparing the familiar Greek language with the unknown Egyptian signs and symbols, men gradually learned to read the ancient language of the people of the Nile.

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Egyptians (1400 B.C)

This is an ancient Egyptian drawing. The Egyptian did not make action drawings like the cave men did. They liked to make beautiful designs and they usually drew flat, side-view pictures