Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt to write the Egyptian language. This complex system combined logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements, utilizing over 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were commonly used for religious literature on papyrus and wood, and the system eventually gave rise to the hieratic and demotic scripts.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs may reflect diffusion of the writing idea, not copying of cuneiform.
“We suspect that hieroglyphs were idea diffusion, that Egyptians got the idea of writing from the Fertile Crescent and then they developed their own writing system.”
Open the episode · #2549 - Jared DiamondListen at 1:34:42
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