{"id":18760,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=18760"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:37:20","slug":"when-were-the-last-hieroglyphics-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/09\/29\/when-were-the-last-hieroglyphics-written\/","title":{"rendered":"When were the last hieroglyphics written?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

When were the last hieroglyphics written?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

Written? The fourth century. But Egyptian writing had to wait over 14 centuries, and some clever decipherment, to be read again <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

On a wall at the ancient Egyptian temple complex of Philae, an inscription depicts the god Mandulis, carved on behalf of a priest named Nesmeterakhem (or Esmet-Akhom). Next to it are hieroglyphics that give the date as the \u201cBirthday of Osiris\u201d in the \u201cyear 110\u201d, or 24 August AD 394. The so-called \u2018graffito of Esmet-Akhom\u2019 (pictured<\/em>) also features the words \u201cfor all time and eternity\u201d, which seems apposite given it is the last example of the picture-heavy script.<\/p>\n\n

By AD 394, there would not have been many people who understood hieroglyphics, let alone used them. The Roman emperor Theodosius had banned pagan religion and so brought millennia of Egyptian deities and beliefs to an end, as well as its writing. Hieroglyphics remained a lost language until the 19th century, when brilliant philologists like Thomas Young and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion \u2013 bolstered by the discovery of the Rosetta Stone \u2013 were finally able to decipher the mysterious signs. <\/p>\n\n

ALAMY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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