Decoding Hieroglyphs: Cracking the Riddle of the Sphinx

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  • čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
  • With the deaths of the last Hieroglyphic writers in the 4th Century CE, knowledge of the script was lost to humanity. For centuries, it remained a relic of a bygone era, associated with paganism, mystery, and the occult by Christian and Islamic onlookers. Today, however, Egyptologists have all the tools they need to read most Hieroglyphic texts. So, how did people decode Hieroglyphs? In this video, we chart the course of decoding, from the writings of Horapollo, to the efforts of Islamic scholars, to the first breakthroughs achieved by European thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Komentáře • 32

  • @SomasAcademy
    @SomasAcademy  Před 3 lety +6

    NOTE: I realized after completing this video that the Thoth determinative I used in the thumbnail was facing the wrong way relative to the rest of the text, please ignore that if you noticed it already lmao
    Some more Additions/corrections:
    - The earliest examples of Hieroglyphs actually date back as far as 3100 BCE, though they were less standardized at the time, which is why I used the earliest date of full Hieroglyphic sentences as the start date for Hieroglyphs being used "in a consistent form" at the beginning
    - The portrait shown at ~0:50 to represent ibn Wahshiyya apparently actually depicts ibn Hytham, though it was drawn from imagination.
    - The script shown at 1:00 and at a few other points throughout the video is actually the Ethiopian script Ge'ez, not Coptic, and the script shown at about 4:46 and a few other points is actually Late Hieratic, a script used by Egyptian priests prior to the Christian era, not Demotic! The script shown at 5:47 is an actual example of Demotic written on something other than the Rosetta stone, and you can see actual Coptic letters at about 0:15 and 6:06 (alongside Demotic ones, in the latter case)

  • @prophetofbara1214
    @prophetofbara1214 Před 3 lety +5

    Very interesting video as always 💖

  • @tpxchallenger
    @tpxchallenger Před rokem

    Very interesting and well presented.
    Subscribed!

  • @hiddenhist
    @hiddenhist Před 3 lety +3

    Cool homie

  • @DjWesRolan
    @DjWesRolan Před 3 lety +1

    Great video hurry up with part 2 lok

  • @jacobali333
    @jacobali333 Před 3 lety +1

    🔥🔥

  • @denizmetint.462
    @denizmetint.462 Před 3 lety

    Odyssey oder Origins?

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy  Před 3 lety

      Origins of course

    • @denizmetint.462
      @denizmetint.462 Před 3 lety

      @@SomasAcademy
      Welches Game hat die bessere Story?

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy  Před 3 lety

      @@denizmetint.462 Between those two, Origins by far, imo. Origins is more serious and was made with one single story in mind, while Odyssey is more lighthearted and has multiple different endings. Origins also actually has a connection to the Assassins and Templars, which Odyssey does not.

    • @denizmetint.462
      @denizmetint.462 Před 3 lety

      @@SomasAcademy
      Thanks

    • @denizmetint.462
      @denizmetint.462 Před 3 lety

      @@SomasAcademy
      Origins arrived yesterday. As a historian, do you think the depiction of the Library of Alexandria is accurate? The developers were apparently inspired by the Library of Kelsos in Efesos.

  • @yvonne530
    @yvonne530 Před rokem

    There is only a way to decipher the hieroglyphs. You need two instruments:
    (1) the symbolic algorithm, found by Albanian Genie Mr. Petro Zheji and,
    (2) the Albanian Language.
    You just need to read the Book of Petro Zheji: "The mesianic role of the Albanian Language". Albanian is really the Cosmic Language, close to the symbols. She is the mother of all languages. Furthermore you have to read the Books: "Thoth spoke Albanian" by Giuseppe Catapano and "The Enigma" by Robert D'Angely.
    The old Sanskrit Language was in fact the Albanian Language. Sanskrit and Latin are dead languages, from the old languages is alive only the Albanian Language, it has strong roots.
    The Greek Language is a very new language, has no roots, it can be easy deciphered through Albanian Language too.
    All the efforts of scientists lately to create an universal language as "esperanto" are not worthy, because the universal language - Albanian Language - exists.
    The Greeks manipulated the Albanian history, but this is a complicated story. The Pelasge/ Arvanite in Dodona, Epirus were Albanians, not Greeks. After the osman registers it can be easy proved, that 90% of the population at that time were Albanians. Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by Homer, he was a blind rapsod. These books speak Albanian, each Ethymiologe can explain that. Lezha an Albanian City was ancient Troy etc.etc. The truth will come soon to light, many documents and artefacts are collected!

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman Před 2 měsíci

    🧠🫁🧠

  • @olivercage4398
    @olivercage4398 Před rokem

    Here from your comment on religion for breakfast

  • @lgomomo
    @lgomomo Před 2 lety

    Egyptian script is a not an extinct language, it is bantu language

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy  Před 2 lety +2

      The Egyptian SCRIPT fell out of use, as I said it did. The Egyptian LANGUAGE did not go extinct, and is still used as a liturgical language by Christian Egyptians today; it's called Coptic (I discuss this in the second part; people figured out how to translate ancient Egyptian using its similarities to modern Coptic). And it's an Afro-Asiatic language, the Bantu languages are a branch of the Niger-Congo language family, from the opposite side of Africa.

    • @lgomomo
      @lgomomo Před 2 lety

      @@SomasAcademy You are my sister, you simply read what mainstream media promote. Coptic is definitely not a descendant language of kam. Niger Congo theory definitely discredited long time ago see Claude mboli ferguson shaman, also cheik. Diop, his successor.. Obenga. In south Africa ad NGuni people we grew up knowing our origin is ancient egypt. Now we can prove it Dna, iron age, or pottery, and most important by language and culture of ancient egyptian is very much preserved in our customs and languages!!!

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy  Před 2 lety +2

      @@lgomomo The similarities between Ancient Egyptian and Coptic are blatant and undeniable to anyone familiar with the languages. I study Hieroglyphs, so I'm not going to be convinced that these languages aren't related by your proclamations; I've seen the similarities with my own eyes, as my professor, who knows Coptic as well as Egyptian, has demonstrated the relations between words and phrases numerous times. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take your word nor anyone else's that this is a fictional connection. Please watch my second video on this topic to see how a knowledge of Coptic was integral to deciphering Hieroglyphs in the first place.

    • @lgomomo
      @lgomomo Před 2 lety

      @@SomasAcademy i studied the same but coptic is derived from greek language, it csn assist but will not give you the essence of the language. Anyway enough talk check videos by mboli, the book is only available in French.

    • @SomasAcademy
      @SomasAcademy  Před 2 lety +2

      @@lgomomo The Coptic SCRIPT is derived from the Greek SCRIPT, but the Coptic LANGUAGE is derived from the Egyptian LANGUAGE. It's like how right now we're writing in a script derived from the Latin Script, but are speaking the English language.