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The ancient Egyptians had a form of pictorial writing called hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs were various pictures that stood for single letter sounds or the sounds of multiple letters put together.

The name of the Ancient Egyptian writing system is called "hieroglyphics."

These were pictographs, picture symbols that could represent letter sounds, words and phrases.

Hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics.

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In modern language, we call it hieroglyphic writing. The ancient Egyptians called their script "mdju netjer" ("words of the gods").

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