Do you understand these symbols?  I didn't think so.  Hieroglyphics were one of the most important means of communication that the Ancient Egyptians used.  It is so very important, because it allowed people to communicate with each other without actually being there to talk to those individuals.  It is also very important because hieroglyphics, (especially in stone) are preserved and withstand the wearing away of time, wind, and sand.  Which, as you probably know, are almost capable of wearing down everything.

      Hieroglyphics are very important to history, because they are surviving documents and records of all things that have happened in the past.  They are also important in the modern day.  Because, if archeologists are looking for tombs, they can read hieroglyphics on the walls of other tombs and pyramids and sometimes find out the exact location of other tombs.

The Hieroglyphic Alphabet, (Above) should help a little bit if you are trying to translate the picture, (@ the top of the page).

Do you understand some of the words in the first picture now?

If you don't, then that's okay, and it is pretty common not to understand them.  Because after all they are written in Ancient Egyptian

I know that the determinatives above are a little bit blurry, but they are basically just words for things.  

Most people think that hieroglyphics, (the individual symbols) mean just one letter.  However, they are wrong.  You can tell that those people are wrong simply by looking at the determinatives chart.

Some individual symbols do stand for one letter, (as you have seen in The Egyptian Alphabet).  But, some symbols stand for words, even short phrases.  Some hieroglyphics stand for a pharaohs full name.  A pharaohs full name usually consist of 3 - 4 words. 

This list of Pharaoh hieroglyphics, (above) should give you an example of some of the intense hieroglyphics