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According to my recent research, I found lots of similarities between Egyptian and Chinese languages.

1) Very basic one: they both use images and symbols.

2) The writing and reading directions are the same: up to down, right to left. ( As you can see in ancient Egyptian scripts on the wall, they ususally use vertical lines to separate the writing in column, same as Chinese. )

3) The logistic they addopted when creating the words are the same.

3.a) both tried to make a "word" fitting inside an imagined square.

3.b) both use"meaning symbol" and "phonetic symbol" to represent a word

4) Both have no punctuation in the whole article.

5) Many words share the same rules. (e.g. all the words regarding woman have a symbol of a woman inside.)

6) Both use the symbol of sun to repredent the word "day" or "date"

There are also many similarities in culture and religion:

1) Both believe the world after life. (therefore both developed the skills to preserve the body and buried lots of mortuary objects in the tombs)

2) Both built pyramids as the tombs for their kings.

3) Both believe the sun is a bird.

4) all Egyptian art and architecture was set out on a grid of 19 lines, just as a Chinese Wei-Qi board is a grid of 19 lines.

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