How Hieroglyphics were Originally Translated

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    Hieroglyphics were elaborate, elegant symbols used prolifically in Ancient Egypt. The symbols decorated temples and tombs of pharaohs. However, being quite ornate, other scripts were usually used in day-to-day life, such as demotic, a precursor to Coptic, which was used in Egypt until the 1000s. These other scripts were sort of like different hieroglyphic fonts-your classic Times New Roman to Jokerman or Vivaldi.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 142

  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  6 років тому +5

    Now that you know how hieroglyphics were originally translated check out this video and find out about Hatshepsut, The Bearded Female King of Egypt:
    ua-cam.com/video/1Kfib_YzhAk/v-deo.html

  • @tristanmendez8578
    @tristanmendez8578 8 років тому +29

    I appreciate you and this video because it seems these videos take a lot of work and the content is great!

  • @Loopcats
    @Loopcats 7 років тому +52

    An ad for Rosetta Stone software at the start of a video about the Rosetta stone. Rosettaception!

  • @WildStar2002
    @WildStar2002 4 роки тому +6

    I bought a hieroglyphic dictionary when I was in High School. Egyptian writing is like a rebus puzzle. Anyway, I was looking through the symbols and I saw one that looked like an Egyptian dude peeing on the ground. Yep! That's exactly what that hieroglyph stood for!

  • @Brodda-Syd
    @Brodda-Syd 7 років тому +6

    Very informative and well presented!
    Always wondered how they were translated.
    Thanks.

  • @ChuckKeough
    @ChuckKeough 6 років тому +5

    Thank God they didn't use that tablet for target practice.

    • @MrRonluker
      @MrRonluker 5 років тому +1

      Maybe that's why it was broken???

    • @nicholaspatton5590
      @nicholaspatton5590 5 років тому +1

      Nah Ron, the video said that the soldiers were breaking a wall and found it.

  • @CBaskins420
    @CBaskins420 7 років тому

    super interesting love the video man! Keep up the great work Simon

  • @Allourquestions
    @Allourquestions 8 років тому

    I love it! Didn't know any of this, thank you!

  • @satanicdude
    @satanicdude 7 років тому +12

    sooo ... still no chappa'ai ?

  • @kellydugan3800
    @kellydugan3800 Рік тому

    So glad Champollion never gave up and took great notes!!!

  • @gasmask6969
    @gasmask6969 7 років тому +1

    at roughly 1:30 i was like "holy shit x-men were in Egypt!!!"

  • @NuttyProductionsOfficial
    @NuttyProductionsOfficial 3 роки тому

    Great video!

  • @BrianH1313
    @BrianH1313 8 років тому

    Thanks Simon, this was an interesting one.

  • @Miawzhies
    @Miawzhies 5 років тому +6

    it just me or someone else just notice that the Sun in coptic/egyptian is "rah" and it's eastern counterpart of the word is 日 "ri" or "ngrat" in old chinese?

    • @lwrncjms
      @lwrncjms 2 роки тому +1

      Chinese is a very old language so it makes sense

  • @istrychalski
    @istrychalski 7 років тому

    Awesome!
    This is rather late, but do you think you can do a video about the evolution and different forms of Chinese? :)

  • @JulieWallis1963
    @JulieWallis1963 6 років тому

    I'm glad I found this. It's about the nearest answer to what I have been thinking about . How did the first travellers to arrive in far off foreign countries make themselves understood. I was left imagining Marco Polo being threatened because he couldn't communicate that he was only "here for a bit of a look around"

  • @schyzm
    @schyzm 7 років тому +16

    darn those ancient Christians ruining things again

    • @makisroumpas5512
      @makisroumpas5512 5 років тому +2

      Basically there are not ancient Christians, they are called only Christians.

  • @MichaelMiller-tm2os
    @MichaelMiller-tm2os 3 роки тому

    I have never seen Simon without a beard before. He is completely unrecognizeable.

  • @Guitarchitect85
    @Guitarchitect85 4 роки тому

    I love the fact that if I want to know the etymology of something esoteric and search UA-cam for it, my first results are TIFO and tom scott. The best things Britain has every produced other than the United States.

  • @jpteknoman
    @jpteknoman 7 років тому +2

    so this is the famous rosetta stone that everyone mentions as an example of a huge discovery.

  • @prantgrimus
    @prantgrimus 2 роки тому +1

    I didn't know Johnny sins was a history teacher as well

  • @Jeffrey314159
    @Jeffrey314159 7 років тому +5

    1:20 the circular pictogram with the X in the middle of it is the ancient symbol for: 'town'

    • @cginclude
      @cginclude 7 років тому +1

      why?

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 років тому +2

      Gingold The circle represents the wall surrounding & protecting the town and the 'X' represents the town's cross roads.

    • @cginclude
      @cginclude 7 років тому

      Jeffrey314159 oh, thanks.

    • @VicariousReality7
      @VicariousReality7 7 років тому

      The suncross?

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 років тому

      VicariousReality7 It is not a suncross. It is a circle crisscrossed with two pairs of lines. The circle is symbolic of the protective walls surrounding the town or city, the lines represent its main streets.

  • @NuttyProductionsOfficial
    @NuttyProductionsOfficial 3 роки тому

    Interesting fact: During World War I, bombing scares prompted British Museum officials to move the Rosetta Stone, along with other select artifacts, to a nearby Postal Tube station, situated 50 feet underground!

  • @capactiveresistance314
    @capactiveresistance314 2 роки тому

    Did you see that 5th line on the stone. Can swear it said "Jaffa Kree"

  • @singinginthedark2786
    @singinginthedark2786 7 років тому +5

    who has not heard of the roseta stone already? i learned about in in elementary school 35 years ago

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 7 років тому +1

      Like most other people on this planet.

    • @ferguson20diesel49
      @ferguson20diesel49 7 років тому

      never heard of it before

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 7 років тому

      Not possible. Joking, right?

    • @ferguson20diesel49
      @ferguson20diesel49 7 років тому +3

      Nope. I'm serious I've never heard of it until this video. All we learned at school is stuff we already know. Like ww2

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 7 років тому

      Very sad.

  • @natemoorman4562
    @natemoorman4562 2 роки тому

    I wasn't remotely prepared for Simon to not have a beard.

  • @donaldslayton2769
    @donaldslayton2769 3 роки тому

    Such a contrast to the way your videos are made today Simone

  • @zawarudo6044
    @zawarudo6044 4 роки тому +1

    Ibn Wahshiyya was the the first one who decipher the hieroglyphycs 800 years before jean paul champollion

  • @LaserGryph
    @LaserGryph 3 роки тому

    Psychologist: beardless and glasses-less Simon Whistler isn't real. He can't hurt you.
    Simon Whistler:

  • @JadenFromCA
    @JadenFromCA 7 років тому

    why does paint chip away/fall away?

  • @anonymlulz8273
    @anonymlulz8273 9 місяців тому

    The beard saved Simeon

  • @thecatsman
    @thecatsman 6 років тому +1

    Forgive me for asking - but is 'Holborn' regularly spoken as hol born these days? It used to be ho burn .

  • @christopherburgos9957
    @christopherburgos9957 2 роки тому +1

    I refuse to believe this is Simon. I literally just clicked a different video about the Rosetta Stone by accident while watching a video about Rosetta Stone by Simon and I just happened to click another video by Simon. Simon you unbeliever of the supernatural and paranormal and ufologists you. How many channels are you going to make me follow!

  • @jonathanwilliam8819
    @jonathanwilliam8819 7 років тому +1

    what a video

  • @DoubleWhistle
    @DoubleWhistle 7 років тому +3

    Members:
    casual
    Del the Funky Homosapien
    Domino
    DJ Toure
    Pep Love
    A-Plus
    Opio
    Phesto
    Tajai

  • @NicBrawlStars
    @NicBrawlStars 2 роки тому +1

    am i the only one that saw this for a school project

  • @WendeHamann
    @WendeHamann 4 роки тому

    I really love this video for helping to teach ancient Egypt, however, the narrator speaks very fast. It is therefore very difficult for younger students (age 11) to follow along and comprehend the information. Is there a way to slow it down a bit?

    • @lucydawes6632
      @lucydawes6632 4 роки тому +1

      Click on the 3 dots and choose playback speed 0.75x

    • @CaptainDangeax
      @CaptainDangeax 3 роки тому

      I'm French and of course not as fluent in english. I add subtitles

  • @kght222
    @kght222 7 років тому +2

    the rosetta stone should be returned to egypt as a reminder of their history, it no longer holds any intellectual value (pictures can cover that) and it is priceless otherwise, which also to me means it has no value outside symbology.

  • @mikeknight42
    @mikeknight42 7 років тому

    So the fact that we attach pictures to alphabet sounds is actually a precursor phonic system which dates back to one of the oldest civilizations who had a huge amount of illiteracy... oh my, if that is not telling of how far archeology has come idk what is.

  • @fuckleberrie
    @fuckleberrie 5 років тому +3

    More like from times new roman to wingdings

  • @kavishasilva3112
    @kavishasilva3112 3 роки тому +2

    Johnny Sins?

  • @louistournas120
    @louistournas120 7 років тому +10

    Today, I found out what it is like to kiss a girl.

  • @MorbidEel
    @MorbidEel 7 років тому

    Writing coptic also seems a lot easier to write than to draw hieroglyphics

  • @MineShackle
    @MineShackle 7 років тому

    When you get a One Piece ad before the video

  • @xevious2501
    @xevious2501 6 років тому +3

    0:40 Id'e like to know who was the absolute tool that thought it a good idea to stick together a THOUSAND YEAR OLD FRAGILE SCROLL with scotch tape!!!!

  • @Knaeben
    @Knaeben 6 років тому +1

    How hard is it to learn to read Hieroglyphics?

  • @pattycake5643
    @pattycake5643 7 років тому +4

    I wondered when I was a youngster if the pictures were just graffiti lol

    • @digitalattic
      @digitalattic 7 років тому +1

      Pompeii had graffiti - why not Egypt? :)
      www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reading-the-writing-on-pompeiis-walls-1969367/

  • @by-fate-but-by-choice
    @by-fate-but-by-choice 7 років тому

    Not really related (though I did enjoy this), but how about a bit about the difference between "cheese", "cheese product", and "cheese food" (at least, in the US)? Also, isn't all cheese "processed" in some way? Thanks for the videos!

    • @kannorkallingzvorth9809
      @kannorkallingzvorth9809 7 років тому

      Don Bell yeah cheese has to be made, you can't go foraging for wild grown cheese

    • @jonesnj07
      @jonesnj07 7 років тому

      omg they actually made it

    • @uriulrich4918
      @uriulrich4918 7 років тому

      It's the other way around. Cheese is Cheese. Cheese Product contains cheese while cheese food is made to be like cheese but has nothing to do with cheese really.

    • @by-fate-but-by-choice
      @by-fate-but-by-choice 7 років тому

      Ok. So then why don't other foods work like that?---potato chips, potato chip food, potato chip product... I'm betting there's a story there somewhere.

    • @by-fate-but-by-choice
      @by-fate-but-by-choice 7 років тому

      Nathan Jones, I apologize but I can't seem to find the video. Do you have a link?

  • @P40BTomahawk
    @P40BTomahawk 7 років тому

    It is to my understanding that 5 of these Ptolemy V decree stones have been found.

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 7 років тому

      I have never heard of this, and couldn't find anything with a google search. Got any more information for us to go on?

    • @P40BTomahawk
      @P40BTomahawk 7 років тому

      Good afternoon Mr. C.
      What I had read was that there were other decree stones placed on the routes entering Alexandria, that others had been found. I will backtrack my research and see if I can find that exact reference and send it to you. I found this for what it may be worth "Ptolemaic Decrees" on Wikipedia.
      Have a good one,
      Trim Tab
      www. twitter.com/P40Tomahawk

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 7 років тому

      That looks like them; very cool.

  • @d.strassler9080
    @d.strassler9080 7 років тому +1

    Are you sure it was WWI ? And not WWII ?

    • @triplecubed
      @triplecubed 7 років тому +4

      Germans bombed London in both wars.

  • @douglaswilkinson5700
    @douglaswilkinson5700 3 роки тому

    The correct word is “hieroglyphs “ not “hieroglyphics.” A call to any university with a department of Egyptology can confirm this.

  • @yvonne530
    @yvonne530 Рік тому

    There is only a way to decipher the hieroglyphs. You need two instruments:
    (1) the symbolic algorithm, found by Albanian Genie Mr. Petro Zheji and,
    (2) the Albanian Language.
    You just need to read the Book of Petro Zheji: "The mesianic role of the Albanian Language". Albanian is really the Cosmic Language, close to the symbols. She is the mother of all languages. Furthermore you have to read the Books: "Thoth spoke Albanian" by Giuseppe Catapano and "The Enigma" of Robert D'Angely.
    The old Sanskrit Language was in fact the Albanian Language. Sanskrit and Latin are dead languages, from the old languages is alive only the Albanian Language, it has strong roots.
    The Greek Language is a very new language, has no roots, it can be easy deciphered through Albanian Language too.

  • @jasonwhitman3367
    @jasonwhitman3367 2 роки тому

    *BDd

  • @TheOnestArab
    @TheOnestArab 8 років тому +17

    It's Hieroglyphs.. There's no ..-glyphic, except as in "Hieroglyphic language" "Hieroglyphic symbol" etc.

    • @annastasijafey4585
      @annastasijafey4585 7 років тому +3

      I was about to say that too. "Hieroglyphic" is an adjective. "Hieroglyph" is the noun. It's not complicated.

    • @Diaphanus
      @Diaphanus 7 років тому

      Yes, thank you.

    • @brydenholley1904
      @brydenholley1904 7 років тому

      I was going to post this, too. There really is no excuse for people getting this wrong.

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 Рік тому

      Okay teacher lol

  • @user-xp7kd6cw4q
    @user-xp7kd6cw4q 3 роки тому

    ศิลาจารึกมีข้ออ้างอิงไม่ได้มันเป็นภาษาโบราณคนที่มันยังคงไม่ใช่หรอกยังไม่ถึงเวลาพระองค์ประสูติรางวัลบังเอิญมากกว่า

  • @vandercecil9449
    @vandercecil9449 7 років тому +5

    Why would over eight thousand people watch this video & not hit the thumbs-up?

    • @patrickneary8446
      @patrickneary8446 7 років тому +2

      some listen while working and don't always have the opportunity, also people watching on Roku and Wiis can't.

  • @braydnfoley9302
    @braydnfoley9302 7 років тому

    if your gonna give bonus facts spread them thru out the video instead of clumped up at the end juss seems sloppy

  • @extrasolar213
    @extrasolar213 6 років тому

    lol

  • @Grabbagar670
    @Grabbagar670 8 років тому

    Is it "hero-glyphics" or "high-roglyphics"? Cuz you said both.

  • @nirv
    @nirv 7 років тому +2

    3:05 - hahah that horrible editing is really jarring. You just hear a clear microphone and then a muffled one. Wow that's amateurish.

    • @nirv
      @nirv 7 років тому

      So somebody commentating on a video is intentionally JARRING? They WANT to use a McDonalds microphone when referring to other people's work? Can you show me any professional historical television show that does the same thing?
      Tick tock tickety tick tock.
      Yeah that's what I thought you apologist.

    • @nirv
      @nirv 7 років тому

      Oh ok. Give me Skype, Mumble, Teamspeak, Ventrilo, or Discord information and insult me in voice.
      Ooops. Found your kryptonite.

  • @user-ff2qp2kz3b
    @user-ff2qp2kz3b 5 років тому +2

    The british museum is one of the greatest legal thief!!!

  • @barthill9578
    @barthill9578 7 років тому

    Its real name is not the Rosetta stone.

  • @barthill9578
    @barthill9578 7 років тому +1

    The Ieroglifika have never been translated don't let them lie to you. Koptis and Dimotika script are variations of the Greek alphabet and their language is Greek. The picture symbols do not represent the phonetic sounds of letters this is obvious by that the other texts letters outnumber the glyph picture symbols 20-1. At 3:30 he mentions that the circle with the dot in the middle is well know to have the 's' sound then goes on to say that the circle with a dot stands for 'ro' well is it pronounced as 'ro' or 's', when something is made up you will hear a lot of double talk. Ieroglifika was used by royals it was their code, their primary form of communication was the Greek alphabet as that the ancient Egyptians were Greek.

    • @2ndviolin
      @2ndviolin 7 років тому +3

      bart hill is this a new theory? it contradicts all the work done by scholars til now.

    • @Jeffrey314159
      @Jeffrey314159 7 років тому +4

      bart hill The Ancient Egyptians were Greek? Only after the Alexandran conquest of the fourth century BCE

    • @2ndviolin
      @2ndviolin 7 років тому +1

      I recommend "Discovering Egyptian Heirglyphs" by Karl-Th. Zauzich translated from the original German.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 7 років тому +2

      Of course.

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney2 3 роки тому

    Cover your face

  • @Dhintheman
    @Dhintheman 7 років тому

    Excuse me, the language of the Egyptians had been cracked many years earlier by the Muslims.

  • @Diaphanus
    @Diaphanus 7 років тому +1

    I stopped watching after the third mention of "hieroglyphics."