It is a royal decree issued in the city of Memphis by priests to Ptolemy V. Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion was able to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs through the oval shapes found in the hieroglyphic text, which are known as Kharratis and include the names of kings and queens.
Q. How did Champollion translate more hieroglyphs than other scholars?
Champollion was able to translate more hieroglyphs than other scholars because he corrected misspellings of famous names, used inscriptions from temple ruins and used the info to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.
Q. How did Champollion decipher the Rosetta Stone?
Following months of painstaking labor, Champollion succeeded in identifying some of the phonetic hieroglyphic signs used in foreign royal names such as “Cleopatra” and “Ptolemy.” He then applied the signs to the names in the cartouches found on the Rosetta Stone and elsewhere, using the discoveries from each new …
Q. What did Champollion discover about the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone?
Answer. Answer: Champollion discovered that hieroglyphs represent both sounds and the things they look like.
Q. Did RA have a daughter?
Ra had three daughters Bastet, Sekhmet and Hathor, who were all considered the Eye of Ra, who would seek out his vengeance.
Q. What did Ra create?
On a Primeval hill, Ra created out of himself the first gods, Shu (Dryness and Air), and his partner Tefnut (Humidity), who would engender other gods to complete the Cosmos: Geb the Earth god and Nut the Sky goddess.
Q. How did Seth became a god?
They believed he lived in the realm of the blessed dead. Seth was a god the Egyptians prayed to so he would help their dead family members. After a time, the priests of Horus came into conflict with Seth’s adherents. Seth became the god of the unclean and an opponent of several gods.
