We Asked An Egyptologist How To Read Hieroglyphs!

[@michalvalent8728]

Bring more videos like this one. Amazing how easy it seems to explain how hieroglyphs were written.

[@marmite-land]

It's so easy because it's wrong.

[@Melocoton326]

@@marmite-land could you elaborate?

[@prismaticmarcus]

@@Melocoton326 probably not

[@Conbotron]

@@Melocoton326 Detailed information on this topic or on similar topic?

[@Melocoton326]

@@Conbotron elaborate on why it's wrong

[@LouisAmateurArt]

I clicked because I was slightly pulled in by the title, and within minutes I was transfixed, right to the end. Please can we have more like this. Chris explains his subject--which is fascinating--superbly.

[@TheZarattack]

I need more!!! this is one of the coolest episodes!!! the details, no one ever get's into the details anymore! Yay!!!!!!

[@chrisjackson1215]

This is the kind of thing that the History Channel used to make. I've missed it so much.

[@rumbidzai]

Chris Naunton is setting up his own channel with online lectures. The stuff posted this far has been amazing. Highly recommended! There are several great episodes with him on History Hit's The Ancients you don't want to miss as well.

[@CarolynParsons-mv1ji]

Thank you so much! The Rosetta Stone is, of course, known for helping historians begin to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. Breaking it down for the lay person is so helpful and I never realized how interesting it would be! This is fantastic!

[@luna-hw9li]

Chris is an amazing presenter/explainer of ancient Egyptian history.

[@ChristopherNaunton]

Aww, thanks 🙏

[@davidcarter8874]

True he has a unique gift. I thought it's because you're drawn in because he's attractive but it's definitely more than just that.

[@luna-hw9li]

@@davidcarter8874 that's really not what I meant, but if it works for you, well, enjoy looking... 🙂 I just really enjoy his various presentations on ancient egypt and I hope he does much more of that.

[@FutureMythology]

This video makes understanding hieroglyphs seem so simple. I'm eager for more videos that demystify ancient writing systems like this!

[@headshot6959]

This is easily the coolest video this channel has yet uploaded. The guy knocked it out of the park at the end, you'll struggle to top this.

[@ChristopherNaunton]

Well a big thank you for this comment 😀🙏

[@headshot6959]

@@ChristopherNaunton You.... I have no interest in Egyptology and little appreciation of linguistics. Yet after watching this video I feel compelled to learn more and even attempt to impress my friends by engraving their phonetic hieroglyphic names into brass. I will check out your books.

[@ChristopherNaunton]

@@headshot6959 Great to read this, thank you again! 🙏

[@florianbooneiam]

More videos with Chris and hieroglyphs, please...

[@Mildon44]

I'm a postgrad Egyptology student - I've been reading hieroglyphs for 5 years now. It's still very tricky and complicated but also still so insightful and rewarding

[@briganja]

I really enjoyed this video! I thought it would be like a tutorial but I prefer this-learning about the process of deciphering hieroglyphics thousands of years after the writing system was last used!

[@bennoe5715]

This is fantastic. The details of how hieroglyphs were actually decoded based on the Rosetta Stone and other sources were fascinating. More content like this please! Just experts doing expert things to teach us something.

[@akumabito2008]

Interesting! I've heard about the Rosetta stone before, but I necer knew exactly how they used it to crack hieroglyphics!

[@TheMoneypresident]

Pretty good movie and documentary about champoleon.

[@BobSacamano-yv3ru]

@@TheMoneypresident on this channel? I’m interested, what’s it called?

[@TheMoneypresident]

@BobSacamano-yv3ru history channel.

[@TheMoneypresident]

@@BobSacamano-yv3ru search Champollion movie or rosseta stone

[@Astronic]

This was one of your best videos.

[@kenmcclellan]

What caught my attention was the mes character around 16:30. Gardiner's F31 or M16 or S16. The interesting thing about "three fox pelts tied together" is that you can find it on some of the bone boxes in Israel or Roman shields or Celtic coins -- as an uneven looking star or two joined three-prong devices (like a Safautic K joined to a Lihianid H) or the Hungarian rune for 100. I have an ancient carved stone from Israel with an AISH where the Shin looks like holding up and spreading three middle fingers on one hand. So imagine a moment when Leo rakes the Milky Way in a reversal with his paw (like Ra slaying Apep). How would you describe it? Cassiopeia has fallen. SHEMA ... LISTEN! As in the main prayer of Israel.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

This video was blessedly "Dan Snow-less"... Please, give us more lo-tech straightforward educational content from Dan Norton. This is the second or third time I've subscribed, because of the lack of Snow.

[@lemon_j22]

Wow, went to a museum the other day with things like this in. This is cool.

[@rodpettet2819]

Simply the best explanation I've seen. Many thanks for the enlightenment.

[@janedoe4316]

I would 100000% love to learn more about egyptian hieroglyphs from you!!!

[@hostiliscivitas]

Thank you Napoleon

[@shayaschonfeld4738]

This guy is SUCH a good explainer!

[@pho3nix-]

I will definitely learn to read Hieroglyphs now.

[@lucyj8204]

This is fascinating, and really well timed for my 10yo's Ancient Egypt homework. Thanks so much!

[@oberstul1941]

This was mind-blowingly informative and oddly engaging. I love Egyptian hieroglyphic history, please give us more of this. Cheers!

[@mithunkartha]

My handwriting was referred to in school as hieroglyphs.

[@tonyharpur8383]

😂 I frequently ask people 'can you read my hieroglyphs...?' 😎 Admittedlly, my writing is closer to...demotic. 😉

[@Eteriaa]

Kid's a natural

[@danaburre618]

Bahahahahaha

[@durangodave]

they called mine sensless scrible, and that was even true without cursive lol

[@tonyharpur8383]

@@durangodave ah, true hieroglyphs then! 😉They were just....illiterate....in Egyptian! 😎

[@lulu4882]

would love a complementary video explaining the deciphering of the pictographic elements of the script!

[@davidhall7744]

Bravo Chris 👏 Excellent video 😉

[@ChristopherNaunton]

Thank you! 🙏

[@PaulSchofield-p6b]

So many questions I have had for years on how to read Hieroglyphs - fascinating. You have re-stoked my interest, such that I will search out more information. Thank you Chris.

[@DeaconBlu]

Love this! Thanks! 😎👍

[@HistoryHit]

Glad you like it!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

One of the most interesting things about egyptian hieroglyps to me is that they were already in the process form transforming from logograms to a phonetic alphabet.

[@purberri]

That was very informative I’ve always been fascinated by ancient Egypt

[@aceroadholder2185]

A simple point that should be mentioned is how to tell if the text should be read left to right or right to left. The text is read so that you are reading into the faces of the animals or human figures. This applies to vertical columns of text as well to determine which column to start with. Like print advertising today, the Egyptians would get creative with text on temple walls and the like. For example, over a doorway one side would have text written left to right and right to left on the other side.

[@TheJCJexe]

Wow, this is so well explained! Bravo!

Amazing episode! Thank you!

[@jodirauth8847]

Great job

[@NeptunesLagoon]

Those amazing caucasians with their idiographic scripts, such as in Sumerians & Egyptians and cuneiform also 😮🎉

[@lisacrandall409]

I loved this. I already knew about the role of the Rosetta Stone in allowing hieroglyphs to be deciphered (and I’ve seen a replica of the stone). But I really enjoyed learning about the specific steps that were taken, and the assumptions that were made, in order to crack the code. Thank you for explaining it all very clearly, with a great pace. Ancient Egypt is endlessly fascinating ❤

[@ryansknowledgeroom]

I'm going to university to study egyptology, this was a great help. Thanks History Hit ✨️

[@chrissim4386]

This was amazing, very nice, very well explained.

[@stevehenderson1248]

What a great video! Makes me want to learn more, thank you 👍

[@myouatt5987]

Fascinating - thank you! It makes (far) more sense to me now. Great vid! 😀

[@wesley907]

Thanks. I really liked that walkthrough.

[@HistoryHit]

Glad to hear it!

[@DallingerM]

You need to get the Metatron on this channel. Putting him in a fully produced video would be awesome! Not only is he a language expert, his knowledge of ancient history bewildering! Another man is Kevin Hicks, getting him in a documentary would be amazing! You’ve got the ability and opportunity to recruit well known names in our community to your team, you shouldn’t waste the chance to create something mind blowing

[@egbutler114]

Metatron has been proven to have European bias and can't be trusted. He denies facts that debunks his narrative.

[@themanwithinflatableknees8770]

Excellent. Absolutely excellent.

[@HistoryHit]

Many thanks!

[@mariajones188]

So interesting. Thank you

[@killerhertzmercedes]

Excellent video, more like this please!

[@liam5382]

Great video. I learnt about this when I was younger watching Cosmos by Carl Sagan

[@scottyboy72]

Thanks for the insight..

[@Orgikan]

outstanding video!

[@blxtothis]

When I first learned of the Rosetta Stone (Original and copy in the British Museam) as a precocious 9 ye are old, I mischievously asked out=r History Tutor “But what if the pieces we found each describe totally different subjects? I didn’t get an answer. It makes sense that Ancient Greek would be listed owing to Alexander’s Conquest and Ptolemy gets a mention as that Monarchical Lineage was derived from his General who was installed as Boss Man of Egypt. Cleopatra was descended from this Greco-Egyptian line.

[@fotograf736]

Thank you for the great video, I was led to believe hieroglyphic symbols corresponded to syllables rather than letters, though syllables were briefly mentioned, we seemed to have used only letter to symbol correspondence in the examples, confused🤔

[@RedHeadedTsunami]

Fascinating!

[@KravKernow]

How many individual hieroglyphs are there? Presumably, if there are many more symbols than there can be vocalised sounds, even allowing for subtleties of tone, then that would be indicative that the language must have been at least partly pictorial?

[@cyndiknapp4904]

Fascinating

[@DeborahVerret-yp9fp]

Well done sir.

[@shreenilodedra5725]

If only people , academics and scholars had this positive attitude towards Aramaic / Syriac .

[@NinaHansen2008]

Loved it!

[@atum]

Great effort. Thank you

[@emansamy8736]

So interesting Chris

[@africanpagan6338]

very cool. thanks

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

I have to rewatch this video again, just to learn hieroglyphs.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Thank you! ❤😊

[@violagentsch]

Maybe 2 of a kind is a different sound. Like a long, or short E. In the German language we have a B with a long line downward replacing two ss. That type of S sounds harsher than a single S.

[@lynnedelacy2841]

Really really interesting!!!!

[@johngriffon2118]

Get The Fink! He already did one video like this about cuneiform, but i wonder if hed be willing to do a more in depth follow up.

[@juneallan4903]

It's same type of idea example.you see a car badge sign.you notice pretty quick it could be named Ford,Toyota, etc.then you know asap it's a vehicle,that drives you along a road.has tyres,seats,stearing wheel.etc.all from a badge.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Loved this

[@garynance988]

I'm retiring soon, and your video made me want to do more research on reading Egyptian hieroglyphics, so I started searching for a physical book online, only to see poor reviews for most books. Do you have any recommendations for a good book on this subject?

[@ulrichlachman1216]

What are the difference sign of all the letter of the Alfaberh?

[@thestudentat101]

👍This explainer was great.🙂

[@BernardDauphinais]

That was great!

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Nice!

[@HistoryHit]

Thank you!

[@PietGrobler-dt1ce]

Absolutely fascinating😯🤓😃

[@yodydee]

Why was the hieroglyph of the sound "t" a loaf (just to take one example)? Did the Egyptian word for "loaf" start with a "t" sound?

[@patavinity1262]

That's exactly it. Hieroglyphs began as a purely pictographic system (the picture means the thing it represents). Later, each hieroglyph began also to represent the phonetic characteristics of the word for the thing it depicted.

[@AliLexLou]

Hi Chris, what does the two feathers or leaves represent ‘e’ when you’re were comparing Ptolomy and Cleapatra’s cartoon characters ches but a ‘y’ in History? Thabks Allie

[@mkphilly]

Brilliant!!

[@AlicjaChojecka]

When writing history hit in hieroglyphs, how do I know where to start reading, If I don't know the word?

[@rcarioca]

enlightening

[@francismuiruri9064]

Interesting stuff.

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

Great introduction to the subject, but we need a lot more depth and content! I wanna know as much as possible! And it still looks easier than japanese.

[@AC-gm6bq]

Superb

[@manchesterisblue1023]

extremely interesting!

[@Emthe30something]

12:14 the scholars working on this were lucky both names, Cleopatra and Ptolmey were foreign names to Egypt. The luck of history!

[@benjaminblakemore9704]

AMAZING 👏 😊

[@JosephPalm-Goodwin]

when you see Pharaoh Tut holding a cup or water it is reference to the constellation Aquarius.

[@HardleyJ]

Clear, engaging, entertaining, interesting, and cute ;-)

[@davidcarter8874]

Fantastic

[@Rain-Dirt]

I would not mind taking lessons from this guy.

[@fatosshubert7272]

“Obelisk. Ancient Egyptians called it “tekhenu “ William Thomas 1549 in his history of Italie.” Apparently.

[@ttestates1]

Holy Sharpies Chris! 😅

[@walvisligoria4036]

Egyptian hieroglyphs reminds me to the Mayan hieroglyphs, they reading the same.

[@1czechit1]

very cool

[@fatosshubert7272]

“Sir Wallis Budge’s An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. Has listed the rulers name between bc3.400-3.100. Starting from; 1…PU last letters. 2. SKA can be read SAKA next to the name there is GoD sign. Goes on and on up to 439 Han. By Polat Kaya yahoo papers.”

[@fatosshubert7272]

They were Turanl/ Tur/ Turk. Oghuzian group of Turkish speaking people. MASAR was their original name.

[@ahmedelkhwaga2751]

Egyptians aren't turks​@@fatosshubert7272

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

Damn good.

[@grumpyg9350]

Love it👍

[@caterpillakilla]

yea…got it

[@mrhassell]

William John Bankes, age 68, died 15 April 1855 at Venice, buried 13 June 1855. spouse(s) unknown, children unknown. He (likely) isn't related to "Banksy"... who knows?

[@kilrati]

How did they know about Remeses?

[@asuka4ever1979]

Chinese characters are like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Some are logograms, like sun, hand, trees, and moon. Some others are syllabic, using those logograms as sounds.

[@WalterMitty1966]

Brilliant , but no mention of Jean-François Champollion!! Look him up And i'm bloody English !! lol

[@yochanan770]

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