The Egyptians are the first to invent and use writing. Let’s know with some research from Charles University in Prague in 2011 AD. The research talks about the history of writing and the origins of the hieroglyphic language. Fortunately, the research was attended by foreigners and an Egyptian doctor of Egyptologists, Fayza Haikal, the first Egyptian to chair the International Society of Egyptologists. Fayza Haikal is a professor of Egyptian archaeology at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo and president of the International Society of Egyptology.
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It is well known and common that Egyptologists determined the emergence of writing in Egypt from the year 3150 BC.
But the new evidence in this research says that at the beginning of the pre-dynastic era, i.e. since 5300 BC, the first writing attempts appeared, which greatly affected the form of hieroglyphics writings that appeared after that.
Meaning that it is before the approved date by about 2000 years. And part of the roots was found in the western desert of Egypt.
It is possible that the prevailing theory that says that the invention of writing appeared with the birth of the Egyptian state and the emergence of administrative and bureaucratic needs. In contrast, according to the research, it appeared as a result of the response of the Egyptian man to climatic changes and the requirements of life itself, and this happened since 5300 BC, according to the carbon dating of the inscriptions that were found on her.
And that it is not the first archaeological discovery nor the first opinion of a group of scholars to confirm that writing originated in Egypt, writing here in the sense of figurative symbols that express the abstract meanings of different things. And the drawing of the foot does not express the foot but rather expresses the sound B, which is found in many other words, or according to the definition of the Egyptologist Alan Gardner in his book The Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Language.
Before the end of the pre-dynastic period, the Egyptians discovered the principle of pictorial writing, Rebus or Charade, which is the use of images not to denote things in themselves, as I mentioned earlier, but rather to refer to various other things that are not easily subject to pictorial representation, that is, the names of things that happen to carry a similar sound.
There are other opinions of some scholars who say that
All the alphabets in the world are descended from one common origin. These alphabets are all derived from the pictorial writing that originated in Egypt.
And the English scientist Simon Potter book Our language.
The first Egyptians were the ones who invented writing by using pictures to denote things or ideas. Then this method was developed for them. The picture became a word. Then symbols were used, which are shapes or parts of a picture to denote words.
George Sarton and the History of Science book
Evidence supports the opinion of those who said that these Egyptians lived in the prehistoric era. They were the oldest great society on earth and their progress in inventing the oldest written system put in their hands’ control of the long path of progress towards civilization.
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