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For anyone who grew up with the 26-letter alphabet, any writing system that is not alphabetic looks complex. But imagine if you had never known about an alphabet and the hieroglyphic system was all there was - you would learn it, gradually, just like young Japanese people learn to write Japanese or anyone learns to play the piano or a violin; those things are no more complicated than hieroglyphs.

For the ancient Egyptians, their writing system was seen as special, sacred and full of tradition which it would have been unthinkable to change.

Only a very few people ever learned to read and write hieroglyphs; they were people with status and power, people with the responsibility of preserving the writing system. That it survived for over 3,500 years is a testament to its importance.

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