You should try to search a hieroglyphs alpahabet or transaltor
One disadvantage was that a writer had to learn at least 700 symbols in order to write.
They can mean words like our letters are kind of like their symbols. It is just another language but sometimes there hieroglyphic symbols mean sentences.
To write "Egypt" in hieroglyphics, you would use the symbols for the sounds "i-ji-pi-ti." The hieroglyphic symbols would be a reed leaf, a vulture, a quail chick, and a loaf of bread.
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Hieroglyphics are a form of symbols that the ancient Egyptians use to write with. Most of it is to be found carved into the buildings that they left behind.
There are about 700 or so Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols.
As a form of written communication.
The Egyptian pictographic symbols are hieroglyphics, the adjective is hieroglyphic.
Both. hieroglyphic symbols were originally pictures only, but several hundred of them evolved into phonetic symbols.
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Ancient Egyptian had far more than just two writing systems: Hieratic, Hieroglyphic, Demotic and then Coptic.