Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta, and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script, following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic.The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining from c. 1450 BC until it ended around 1100 BC, during the early Greek Dark Ages. It represents the first advanced civilization in …

In Egypt beer was a primary source of nutrition, and consumed daily. Beer was such an important part of the Egyptian diet that it was even used as currency. Like most modern African beers, but unlike European beer, it was very cloudy with plenty of solids and highly nutritious, quite reminiscent of gruel.It was an important source of protein, minerals and vitamins and was so …

Egyptian hieroglyphs 32nd c. BCE. Hieratic 32nd c. BCE Demotic 7th c. BCE Meroitic 3rd c. BCE; Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE Ugaritic 15th c. BCE; Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BCE Geʽez 5–6th c. BCE; Phoenician 12th c. BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE Samaritan 6th c. BCE; Aramaic 8th c. BCE Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE; Brahmi 3rd c. BCE Brahmic family ...

Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language or languages. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was succeeded by Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek.It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Arthur …

The term "ideogram" is often used to describe symbols of writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform and Chinese characters.However, these symbols represent elements of a particular language, mostly words or morphemes (so that they are logograms), rather than objects or concepts.In these writing systems, a variety of strategies were employed …

A sistrum (plural: sistra or Latin sistra; from the Greek σεῖστρον seistron of the same meaning; literally "that which is being shaken", from σείειν seiein, "to shake") is a musical instrument of the percussion family, chiefly associated with ancient Egypt.It consists of a handle and a U-shaped metal frame, made of brass or bronze and between 30 and 76 cm in width.

Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language, as well as the liturgical languages, Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a ...