Hieroglyphics

To kick start our new topic 'Ancient Egypt', we had great fun writing our names and other secret messages in hieroglyphic writing. Egyptian writing called hieroglyphics uses pictures to represent different objects, actions, sounds or ideas. There were more than 700 hieroglyphs, we've studied 28 of them already! Some pictures stand for whole words. Here are some examples...

How do we read hieroglyphics?
You need to look closely at the hieroglyphs to find out. It depends on which way the people or animals are facing. For example, if an animal hieroglyph faces right, you read from right to left. If it faces left, you read from left to right (the same way that we do). Just to confuse you, sometimes they read Hieroglyphs from top to bottom too! We used all of these methods which made our messages very tricky to read!

Check out this site for more information on hieroglyphs...