{"id":142,"date":"2013-09-05T02:53:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=142"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:49:40","slug":"hieroglyphics-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/history\/egypt\/hieroglyphics-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating facts about hieroglyphics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were one of the hardest of Egypt&#8217;s\u00a0mysteries to uncover! Check out our fascinating\u00a0facts about hieroglyphics&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn about how\u00a0Egyptian writing works and what it all represents, plus\u00a0find out how to spell your name in\u00a0hieroglyphics\u00a0&#8211; <em>cool<\/em>!<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lightslider-gallery\"><li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140404092940280436749-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140404092940280436749.jpg\"><\/li><li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929311007849546-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929311007849546.jpg\"><\/li><li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929461522056627-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929461522056627.jpg\"><\/li><li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929531188668733-150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201404040929531188668733.jpg\"><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2>Facts about\u00a0hieroglyphics<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although hieroglyphics are Egyptian, the word hieroglyphics is Greek. &#8220;Hiero&#8221; means &#8220;holy&#8221; and &#8220;glyphics&#8221; means &#8220;marks&#8221; or &#8220;writings&#8221; &#8211; so the word means &#8220;<strong>holy writings<\/strong>&#8220;. The Egyptians believed there was great power in a name. If someone&#8217;s name was remembered then he or she would survive in the afterlife. That&#8217;s why pharaohs&#8217; names were written in hieroglyphics in their tombs!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span>What do the pictures mean?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the pictures can stand for the object they represent, but usually they stand for sounds. In Egyptian, the owl stands for the sound &#8220;m&#8221;. The Egyptian symbol for a mouth can mean mouth but it&#8217;s usually read as the sound &#8220;r&#8221;. You can&#8217;t exactly match our alphabet to hieroglyphics, because they are two very different languages, but historians have come up with a simplified translation of our letters and Egyptian hieroglyphs.<\/p>\n<p>Hieroglyphics can be pictures of living creatures, objects used in daily life or symbols. Some are easy to identify, some confusing and some impossible!\u00a0If you look at the alphabet chart, you can easily spot the foot, the hand, the lion and the owl, but why are there two different kinds of snakes?<\/p>\n<p>From A to Sh, the hieroglyphic symbols are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905025737223814147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905025737223814147.jpg\" alt=\"Hieroglyphics Uncovered\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905025737223814147.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905025737223814147-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>A<\/strong>\u00a0an Egyptian vulture<br \/><strong>B<\/strong>\u00a0a foot<br \/><strong>C<\/strong>\u00a0a basket with handle<br \/><strong>D<\/strong>\u00a0a hand<br \/><strong>E<\/strong>\u00a0a reed<br \/><strong>F<\/strong>\u00a0a horned viper (an Egyptian snake)<br \/><strong>G<\/strong>\u00a0a jar-stand<br \/><strong>H<\/strong>\u00a0a reed shelter<br \/><strong>I<\/strong>\u00a0a reed<br \/><strong>J<\/strong>\u00a0a cobra<br \/><strong>K<\/strong>\u00a0the basket with the handle again (because hard &#8220;C&#8221; is like &#8220;K&#8221;)<br \/><strong>L<\/strong>\u00a0a lion<br \/><strong>M<\/strong>\u00a0an owl<br \/><strong>N<\/strong>\u00a0a zigzag symbol for water<br \/><strong>O<\/strong>\u00a0a lasso<br \/><strong>P<\/strong>\u00a0a square stool<br \/><strong>Q<\/strong>\u00a0a symbol for the slope of a hill<br \/><strong>R<\/strong>\u00a0a mouth<br \/><strong>S<\/strong>\u00a0a piece of linen folded over<br \/><strong>T<\/strong>\u00a0a bun<br \/><strong>U<\/strong>\u00a0a quail chick (which stands for the sound &#8220;U&#8221;)<br \/><strong>V<\/strong>\u00a0a horned viper<br \/><strong>W<\/strong>\u00a0a quail chick<br \/><strong>X<\/strong>\u00a0a basket and folded linen<br \/><strong>Y<\/strong>\u00a0two reeds<br \/><strong>Z<\/strong>\u00a0a door bolt<br \/><strong>CH<\/strong>\u00a0a hobble<br \/><strong>KH<\/strong>\u00a0a ball of string<br \/><strong>SH<\/strong>\u00a0the rectangle (which is the symbol for land)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you use the hieroglyphic chart above to see if you can write your own name?<\/p>\n<p>For more about the Ancient Egyptians and their hieroglyphics, check out this cool clip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YgVlXOyU10I?list=PLQlnTldJs0ZQjnw9HPXpeCF7m5afjcWPd&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Photos: Getty Images UK<\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Making-Egypt-PY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317613 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Making-Egypt-PY.jpg 390w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Making-Egypt-PY-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Here for the Making Egypt comp? For your next clue, head to the page where you&#8217;ll find the powerful deities that Ancient Egyptians worshipped &#8211; like Anubis, Tetnut and Sobek. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were one of the hardest of Egypt&#8217;s\u00a0mysteries to uncover! Check out our fascinating\u00a0facts about hieroglyphics&#8230; Learn about how\u00a0Egyptian writing works and what it all represents, plus\u00a0find out how to spell your name in\u00a0hieroglyphics\u00a0&#8211; cool! Facts about\u00a0hieroglyphics Although hieroglyphics are Egyptian, the word hieroglyphics is Greek. &#8220;Hiero&#8221; means &#8220;holy&#8221; and &#8220;glyphics&#8221; means &#8220;marks&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/history\/egypt\/hieroglyphics-uncovered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fascinating facts about hieroglyphics!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[114,465,252,266],"christmas-category":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-egypt","tag-facts-for-kids","tag-hieroglyphics","countries-australia","countries-ireland","countries-new-zealand","countries-south-africa","countries-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Facts about hieroglyphics | National Geographic Kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join us here at Nat Geo Kids to discover fascinating facts about hieroglyphics. 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