Hieroglyphs & Writing
Test your knowledge of Egyptian hieroglyphs and writing — the system, the scripts, and how it was finally deciphered.
Fourteen questions cover the Rosetta Stone, Jean-François Champollion's 1822 breakthrough, scribes, and papyrus.
A solid check on how a 2,000-year-old writing system was cracked open by a 19th-century scholar.
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Q1
In which century was the Rosetta Stone discovered by French soldiers in Egypt?
Q2
The Rosetta Stone contained inscriptions in three different scripts. Which of these was NOT one of them?
Q3
Which French scholar is credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone?
What This Quiz Covers
- The Rosetta Stone's three scripts
- Champollion's 1822 decipherment
- Logograms, phonetics, and determinatives
- Hieratic and Demotic cursive scripts
- Scribes and their social status
- Papyrus as a writing material
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