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The Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

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Hieroglyphs

Hieroglyphs were a writing system the

ancient Egyptians used. It was one of the

world’s first. Symbols were based on the

sounds. It was carved in stone, but other

times it was written on papyrus, which

was a long-lasting material made from

reeds. They made it by pressing the reeds

together and pounded it into sheets. It was

tough, durable, and you could roll it up.

There were six hundred symbols in the

hieroglyphic system. When writing, it was

written either horizontally or vertically;

left to right or right to left. There were no

double letters or silent ones.

Rosetta Stone

At age eleven, Jean Francois Champollion was shown the

hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone. He vowed one day he would be able to translate it. At seventeen, he knew

twelve languages, including Coptic. In 1799, French soldiers in Napoleon’s army uncovered the stone in Rosetta. Scholars determined the writing in

three different languages. It became an official announcement that honored

King Ptolemy. In 1822, Champollion found a method and the meaning for

the hieroglyphs. The signs represented not only a whole word, but sometimes

for one sound only. He found a cartouche for Cleopatra. Champollion

identified eighty different names to confirm his method worked.

Julia Marco

King Tutankhamen became a king at the age of nine

and died at the age of nineteen. His tomb was the

only one untouched in the Valley of the Kings. In

1917, Howard Carter started searching for King

Tut’s tomb. On November 4th 1922 (the last season

to dig), Carter’s water boy set his vase on King

Tut’s undiscovered tomb. It was exactly two yards

away from a previous excavator. Carter found a

sunken stairway below Ramses the Great’s tomb.

Then Carter found a sealed door with King Tut’s

name and seals. It took ten seasons to finish

clearing, preserving, and removing all the treasures

to the Nation Museum in Cairo, Egypt.

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King Tutankhamen King Tut’s Mask

Some people believed there was a curse if you

opened a pharaoh’s tomb. Lord Carnarvon, the

man that started the expedition, died of a

mosquito bite two months after Carter’s

discovery. The bite was on the same cheek

Lord C.’s mosquito bit was on. Lord

Carnarvon’s dog died instantly after he howled.

Also, all the lights in Cairo went out for a long

period of time. By 1929, twenty two people

died who had been involved in the expedition.

Howard Carter himself died at the age of sixty-

six. Was it a curse or coincidence?

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