Wotan
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During the documentary "Ancient Aliens - The Evidence" (which was aired on the History channel) it shows these heiroglyphs
http://imageshack.us/m/705/156/iwanttofly.png
(image posting is not working, go to the link to see it)
and claims it says "I want to fly"
I have only been studying egyptian for about half a year, but I emediately could tell it was not even close to saying "I want to fly" (fly has a birds wing in it for gods sake)
So I decided to try to work out what it actually said, after stairing at it for about 4 minutes I realised I did not recognise ANY of the word bunchings, the fact they lacked determitives (symbols that explain the word) was strange enough. So I started to sound out the egyptian sounds.
"I...w...a...n..t...to fly." It is literally just the english words "I want to fly" written with egyptian heiroglyphs, considering the slight gap in time between these two cultures I have determined that this documentary is complete bollox.
Does anyone else have some docos that are complete crap and full of lies? we should make an "avoid referencing these things list.
http://imageshack.us/m/705/156/iwanttofly.png
(image posting is not working, go to the link to see it)
and claims it says "I want to fly"
I have only been studying egyptian for about half a year, but I emediately could tell it was not even close to saying "I want to fly" (fly has a birds wing in it for gods sake)
So I decided to try to work out what it actually said, after stairing at it for about 4 minutes I realised I did not recognise ANY of the word bunchings, the fact they lacked determitives (symbols that explain the word) was strange enough. So I started to sound out the egyptian sounds.
"I...w...a...n..t...to fly." It is literally just the english words "I want to fly" written with egyptian heiroglyphs, considering the slight gap in time between these two cultures I have determined that this documentary is complete bollox.
Does anyone else have some docos that are complete crap and full of lies? we should make an "avoid referencing these things list.