Hieroglyphs

Ancient Egyptian writing system.

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used in ancient Egypt, combining logographic and alphabetic elements.

/ˈhaɪrəˌɡlɪf/

The word 'hieroglyph' comes from the Greek words hieros ('sacred') and glypho ('to carve').

Hieroglyphs were like picture-writing used in ancient Egypt, where symbols represented sounds or ideas to tell stories and record history.

Hieroglyphs could be read from left to right, right to left, or top to bottom
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode hieroglyphs in the 1820s
Some hieroglyphs represent sounds, while others are symbols for entire words or ideas

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