Hieroglyphs emerged from the preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. For example, symbols on Gerzean pottery from circa 4000 BC resemble hieroglyphic writing. For many years the earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the Narmer Palette, found during excavations at Hierakonpolis (modern Kawm al-Ahmar) in the 1890s, which has been dated to circa 3200 BCE. Hieroglyphs are ancient Egypt’s lasting legacy because it contributed to art, education, and a higher understanding of ancient Egypt. These three topics are contributing factors of why hieroglyphs are ancient Egypt’s lasting legacy.
The invention of script in the late fourth millennium BC marked a huge step in the cultural development of mankind. In ancient Egypt, the scribe was revered and honored, and a seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in early ancient Egyptian art. Writing was considered to be the foundation for ordered life and government. Ideas, discoveries, wisdom and experience now need no longer die with the individual, but could be passed on to endless generations, indeed onto us, as we can read the literature, artistic and scientific texts of these fascinating people. Hieroglyphs are very artistic in several ways. First of all it is very complicated to record with considering that one would have to draw out every single symbol. Secondly hieroglyphs are not made up of letters but symbols so for example a river would be a wave like symbol. That is why hieroglyphs are ancient Egypt’s legacy.
Not very many boys and girls went to school in Ancient Egypt. Most of these boys and girls came from rich families and went to scribal school. They went to school so maybe one distant day they could grow up and enter the royal service, maybe even a famous pharaoh or wealthy scribe. In scribal school, they still used the utensils of a scribe: a reed brush, ink made out of soot and water, and the world’s first paper papyrus. If you were not going to study to be a scribe,...