Quote: (08-17-2015 12:36 PM)Bad Hussar Wrote:
Good idea for a thread. Some questions that come up:
1) Why did the Egyptians call their land "The black land". Not wanting to get into political waters here, but it seems from paintings that the Egyptians were either brown or reddish skinned. Was it because of the silt coming down the Nile?
2) Did the Egyptians ever get far enough that they made reusable stamps of the common hieroglyphs, or was every single one of them drawn by hand?
3 Is it really true that we would have nearly no idea what the hieroglyphs mean if it wasn't for the Rosetta Stone, or is this a fanciful exaggeration?
Your second point was one of my first thoughts as well. Even thought the Chinese use complex characters in their writing each character is its own word while this looks more like sounds to form words.
If they did use stamps, I would be very curious as to how advanced they were. Not saying they would have had a typewriter but I wonder how much of a stretch that would be.