Egyptians Numbers
The Egyptian culture has been one of the cultures that gives given reason for how it was the civilization in ancient times, has provided traces and details of how far their civilization reached in various activities.
One of its most salient characteristics is as regards the numbering Egyptian since it constitutes one of the oldest ways of writing and numbers of the world. Surprised even further when such symbols were taken from the very nature, that is, of the flora and fauna of the Nile.
It is important to mention that the Egyptians with a kind of writing organized and she described the numbers Egyptians in based on the number 10, using hieroglyphics with common images in its iconography that represented the units, dozens, hundreds, thousands and so on up to the millions.
In this way carried out the script on occasions necessary, from right to left or vice versa, or also from top to bottom which depended directly on the orientation of the figure. Read the rest of this entry »



