RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Are EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS ON A WALL a Primary or Secondary Source?
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The use of hieroglyphic writing arose from proto-literate symbol systems in the Early Bronze Age, around the 32nd century BC (Naqada III), with the first decipherable sentence written in the Egyptian language dating to the Second Dynasty (28th century BC).

Detailed explanation-2: -The word hieroglyph literally means “sacred carvings". The Egyptians first used hieroglyphs exclusively for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls. This form of pictorial writing was also used on tombs, sheets of papyrus, wooden boards covered with a stucco wash, potsherds and fragments of limestone.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Palermo Stone. The Turin Canon. The Turin Canon was a papyrus scroll listing Egyptian kings from the First to the Nineteenth Dynasty. Karnak, Abydos and Sakkara Lists. Historians. Manetho. Heroditus. Strabo. Diodorus Siculus. More items

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