Using Hieroglyphics to Date and Relate Objects

The hieroglyphs are the primary source for how we date and relate objects like this into the story of history so if you have a precision carved box and it has the name of petalameus or or tolemy or or a king on it then egyptologist is going to say ah this box was made for tolemy and it was made in the time of tolemy. The writing came with the dynastics and in a lot of cases they were writing on top of inherited objects because ramsies wrote his name very deeply on top of other people's names. Some of these sphinxes have like five or six names of different kings on them because rams