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enigmatic writing/cryptic writing /coded writing
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hieroglyphics
Archaeologists call the basic unit in the Aztec and Mayan system of writing is called a glyph.
secret writing= code
Archaeologists call the Sumerian writing system "cuneiform". We do not know what the Sumerians called it.
Ordinary people call it alphabetic. Scholars also follow suit.
"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components."
"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components."
"But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components."
Well, we will never know what they called it, but now we call them Heirogylphs or Heiroglyphics.