Place Value

Ancient Egyptian numbers are a form of language. The numbers are written in objects. Each image/object represents a place value like the short ropes.

The short ropes represents the ones, long ropes represents the tens, coils represents the hundreds, the flower represents the thousands, A finger represent ten thousands, a frog represents hundred thousands and a god praising to the sun represents million.

Example: This is a picture of the flower that represents the thousands

To make a number using Ancient Egyptian, Egyptians used objects in specific order to make the numbers. For example writing 5,435, in the Ancient Egyptian numbers uses 5 flowers, 4 coils, 3 long ropes, and 5 short ropes.