#hieroglyphs — Public Fediverse posts

Two other writing systems are often compared to #emojis: #Chinese characters and #hieroglyphs. @Kuchenschwarte
I'm not really an expert on either, but I did study Chinese in university and recently had a long conversation with an Egyptologist colleague (who gave me the 101 on hieroglyphs 😄 ). Egyptian hieroglyphic writing was an alphabet (ie, each character roughly corresponds to a sound like p, t, k). So while the hieroglyphs resemble objects, they were not read as such, at least not in the later stages. (Btw. Latin characters also developed from picture-like objects in many cases, but it's been a long time since these pictures were recognizable)
Thus, emojis do not resemble Egyptian hieroglyphs in my view - each emoji corresponds most closely to a word or concept, not a single letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Not one, but two proposals to start encoding Maya hieroglyphs in Unicode!

This represents such a tremendous amount of research work, done by several impressive scholars over so many years.

And the Maya hieroglyphs (and their typographical rendition) are just so incredibly beautiful!

[UTC]
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26145-codical-maya.pdf
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26146-classic-maya.pdf

[WG2]
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5366-Codical_Maya_20260619.pdf
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5367-Classic_Maya_20260619.pdf

#Unicode #Maya #Hieroglyphs

Go home #Github, you're drunk

#WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry #ElectricFish #Egyptian #Hieroglyphs

From @joannechocolat

#Benerib (c. 3050 BC) was a queen consort of ancient #Egypt from First Dynasty.

She was a wife of #pharaoh Hor-Aha, but it is unclear which one ("Benerib" means "sweetheart.")

Either way, she was loved. 🥰

(Image below is a fragment of an ivory box with the names of Hor-Aha and Benerib, found at #Abydos.)

Personal note: In researching this, I came across a different ivory panel described as 'serekh of Hor-Aha in the centre, and Benerib's name is only partially visible at the bottom'.

#TIL from Wiki a 'serekh' is a rectangular enclosure representing the niched or gated façade of a palace surmounted by (usually) the Horus falcon, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.

The serekh was the earliest convention used to set apart the royal name in ancient Egyptian iconography, predating the later and better known #cartouche by four dynasties and five to seven hundred years.

(And 'cartouche' is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the feature did not come into common use until the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu.)

#CelebratingWomen #HorAha #Hor_Aha #Hieroglyphs

The latest version 3.0.0 of the open-source application "Unicopedia Ægypta" is now available, displaying all the representative glyphs of the 4,403 Egyptian hieroglyphs belonging to the "Core Unikemet" set.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta

#Unicopedia #Egyptian #Hieroglyphs #Unikemet #Unicode #NewGardiner #Font

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🇪🇬🔨 Sculptor Miriam Johnson demonstrates how the same stone-carving techniques used thousands of years ago are still in practice today.

In this #video for the Victoria and Albert #Museum, she uses mallets and chisels to show the difference between sunken and raised relief #hieroglyphs.

👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/9ww8J

#history #architecture #art #communication #egypt #sculpture #tksst

🇪🇬🔨 Sculptor Miriam Johnson demonstrates how the same stone-carving techniques used thousands of years ago are still in practice today.

In this #video for the Victoria and Albert #Museum, she uses mallets and chisels to show the difference between sunken and raised relief #hieroglyphs.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-did-ancient-egyptians-carve-hieroglyphs-in-stone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=egyptian-hieroglyphs-carving

#history #architecture #art #communication #egypt #sculpture #tksst

Inside the 19th century mummy mania, when Europe dined with Egypt's dead.

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies.

The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade.

At dinner parties in 19th century Europe, Egyptian mummies were all the rage.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260117-inside-the-19th-century-mummy-mania-when-europe-dined-with-egypts-dead?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #History #Pyramids #Hieroglyphs #Mummies #Napoleon #Egypt #AncientEgypt