By the 4th century CE, few Egyptians were capable of reading hieroglyphs, and the myth of allegorical hieroglyphs was ascendant. Monumental use of hieroglyphs ceased after the closing of all non-Christian temples in 391 CE by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I; the last known inscription is from Philae, known as The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, from 396 CE.
The very last hieroglyphic inscription we know about can be precisely dated - it was carved to commemorate the birthday of the Roman emperor Diocletian on 24 August 394 AD at the Island of Philae.
The carving is extremely poorly done and the hieroglyphs are nothing like as clear and beautifully written as those of earlier periods. The Egyptian religion was just about to be changed to Christianity and the writing was replaced by Roman and Greek scripts.
Around 300BCE
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Answer: The last known text in hieroglyphs was carved into stone on the temple of Isis at the island of Philae in exactly 394 AD (that is at the end of the 4th century of the Christian era). This was towards the end of the Roman Period and almost the end of the ancient world.
This final text is written very badly with very corrupt and childlike signs, next to a very poor-quality portrait of a king or god. It demonstrates very clearly how hieroglyphs had deteriorated during the Late Period of Egyptian history.
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The last known use of hieroglyphs is on the walls of the temple on the island of Philae, dating to 394 AD, almost 3,500 years after the very earliest known examples.
By the late 4th century AD, Egypt had been a Roman province for hundreds of years and hieroglyphic script had become extremely strange; many bizarre new signs had been developed and older signs dropped, simply to make the writing more complex and difficult, in order for it to remain mysterious and out of the reach of ordinary citizens.
Hieroglyphs essentially became unwieldy and unreasonable, so the popular Coptic script took over.
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it ended in 6600bc
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300-400 bc
Hieroglyphics became extinct because no one could understand it. Also Egypt was taken over by Rome so they lost their hieroglyphic language and spoke what the romans did. +++ The Romans spoke Latin.
Hieroglyphics = hiéroglyphes
No, you cannot smoke hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics are picture symbols.
Hieroglyphics became extinct because no one could understand it. Also Egypt was taken over by Rome so they lost their hieroglyphic language and spoke what the romans did. +++ The Romans spoke Latin.
Hieroglyphics were a form of writing.
Hieroglyphics = hiéroglyphes
No, you cannot smoke hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics were written on papyrus.
The correct spelling is "hieroglyphics" (ancient Egyptian pictographs).
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Correction What year were hieroglyphics discovered
Egyptians hieroglyphics are picture letters
The Mayan hieroglyphics remain undecipherable.
Hieroglyphics
Scribes wrote hieroglyphics. Priests and royalty were also taught hieroglyphics.