Decoding Hieroglyphs: Cracking the Riddle of the Sphinx

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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[SomasAcademy]

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)

[tpxchallenger]

Very interesting and well presented.

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[yvonne]

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!

[olivercage]

Here from your comment on religion for breakfast

[lgomomo]

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