WorldNet: Virginia SPECIAL Also joining us will be representatives from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond and Richard Cook, who will talk about his reserach in Egypt.. Virginia teachers, who are in Egypt participating in the study seminar, will be available live via phone to answer questions from students and teachers about their trip and Egypt.
For information on resources at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts go to their Web site at: http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/
In 1799, French soldiers found a stone tablet near Rosetta, Egypt. The inscription on the stone was written in three languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, (a simplified form of ancient Egyptian writing) and Greek. Jean Francois Champollion translated the tablet and helped further the study of Egypt, which is called Egyptology.
DOE Hour - March 29, 2-3 P.M.
Ancient Egypt
With Dr. Zahi Hawass
On March 29 from 2 to 3 p.m., all Virginia public television stations will air a special DOE Hour hosted by Dr. Edward L. Kelly, Superintendent of Schools for Prince William County. This broadcast will focus on Egypt, the pyramids, and the Sphinx and will feature Dr. Zahi Hawass, the noted archeologist in charge of the research being done at Giza. For additional information about his work, go to: http://guardians.net/hawass/
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During the Study Seminar we will be playing a Hieroglyphic Word Scramble Game with your students. The letters will be in Egyptian hieroglyphs and will in the pictures within the daily journals. Your students will use the Egyptian alphabet below to figure out the translation of each letter in each of the pictures. Then they will use those letters to unscramble the word. The first class that e-mails their answer wins. There will be class prizes for first, second and third. You can only e-mail your answer after you receive your e-mail notice announcing that the last letter has been posted. Good luck and have fun.
The Egyptians had one of the first written languages. Hieroglyphic writing appeared more than 5000 years ago. Hieroglyphic writing uses clearly distinguishable pictures to express both sounds and ideas and was used until about 400 AD, when the last hieroglyphic text was written on the walls of the temple of Isis on the island of Philae. It was used in monumental inscriptions on walls of temples and tombs, but also on furniture, sarcophagi and coffins, and even on papyrus. It could either be inscribed or drawn and often the signs would be painted in many colors. The quality of the writing would vary from highly detailed signs to mere outlines.
