ocr: Reading Hieroglyphs By300 BC, Egyptians were writing documents in Greek rather than in hieroglyphs. By 450AD,noone could read or write in hieroglyphs. For more than 1,000 years, people looked at nieroglyphs and wondered what they said. In1 1799, Napoleon's soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone. It had the same message written in three ways: Greek, hieroglyphs, and demotic. (Demotic was at fast way of writing Egyptian.) to Egyptian. Today, Egyptologists can Because people knew how to read read hundreds of hieroglyphs. Greek, the Rosetta Stone was the See Also: key to leaming to read hieroglyphs ...
