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Most often, Egyptian hieroglyphs were written right to left, but since hieroglyphic carving was often used decoratively, considerations of symmetry sometimes led to left-to-write writing as well. In either case, the direction of reading is always clear, because signs with well-defined fronts and backs (for example, birds, snakes and people) always face toward the beginning of the line. If you see a hieroglyph of a snake facing left, you know that the text is supposed to be read from left to right.
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∙ 7y agoDirection didn't matter. It depended on where the writing was done. On papyrus, right-to-left was the most common.
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